If we do not forgive others, the result in us is that we are delivered to the inquisitors till we have paid to God all that was owing to him,

We open the way for the accuser of the brethren, Satan, to have the right to release his inquisitors to question us continually about our wrong-doing. We do not have peace with God but a perpetual torment of accusation and guilt.

We are to forgive each one his brother from our hearts their trespasses.

This is so important a teaching, a principle we must live by, that Jesus in teaching his disciples how to pray tell us to pray: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us"

Those people who have forgiven the perpetrators of great evil against them, even the murder of members of their family, are not then held under the additional pain of thoughts of anger and ...