You do not have to feel forgiving to forgive

You do not have to feel it first · 12:53 · 2026-09-05 · King James Version

You forgave them and it did not take, so you concluded it did not count. That conclusion is a matter of vocabulary. Jesus taught people to ask "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" — accounting language, not emotional language — and the Greek word underneath forgive means to send away. Forgiveness is the release of a claim you are genuinely entitled to hold, which makes it available tonight, whatever you feel. Also: the sentence after the one everybody quotes, and why what is forbidden is the ledger rather than the boundary.