Is it true that it's better to be sinned against than to sin against others?
Mooky
[Is it true that it's better to be sinned against than to sin against
others?]
O LORD my God, in You I put my trust; Save me from
all those who persecute me;
And deliver me,
Lest they tear me like a lion,
Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
O LORD my God, if I have done this:
If there is iniquity in my hands,
If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or have plundered my enemy without cause,
Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
Yes, let him trample my life to the earth,
And lay my honor in the dust. Psalm 7:1–5 (NKJV)
BeyondET
Can't force people to forgive so what would be better [is] a
heart that has chosen forgiveness rather than not.
Lk 17:3
"Stop Me! Before I
Forgive Again..." by Bob
Enyart
BeyondET
Leviticus 19:17
Lev 19:17. thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour—Instead of cherishing
latent feelings of malice or meditating purposes of revenge against a person who
has committed an insult or injury against them, God’s people were taught to
remonstrate with the offender and endeavor, by calm and kindly reason, to bring
him to a sense of his fault.
not suffer sin upon him—literally, “that ye may not participate in his sin.”
Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and
Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 1, p. 87). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research
Systems, Inc.
Father forgive them for they know not what they do.
"Lk 23:34 forgive them. I.e., His tormentors, both
Jews and Romans (cf. Acts 7:60). Some of the fruit of this prayer can be in the
salvation of thousands of people in Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:41). they do
not know what they do. I.e., they were not aware of the full scope of their
wickedness. They did not recognize Him as the true Messiah (Acts 13:27, 28).
They were blind to the light of divine truth, “For if they had understood it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory” (1 Cor. 2:8). Still, their
ignorance certainly did not mean that they deserved forgiveness; rather, their
spiritual blindness itself was a manifestation of their guilt (John 3:19). But
Christ’s prayer while they were in the very act of mocking Him is an expression
of the boundless compassion of divine grace." MacArthur, J., Jr. (Ed.). (1997).
The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 1564). Nashville, TN: Word Pub.
Is
it true that it's better to be sinned against than to sin against others?