Q.194. For what do we pray in the fifth request?
A. In the fifth request ( Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors[1]), we acknowledge that we and everyone else are guilty both of original sin and actual sins and are therefore debtors to God’s justice, and that neither we nor any other created being can make the least satisfaction for that debt.[2] We pray then for ourselves and others that of his free grace and through the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, which is grasped and applied by faith, God would acquit us from the guilt and punishment of sin,[3] accept us in the One he loves,[4] continue his favor and grace to us,[5] forgive our daily sins,[6] and fill us with the peace and joy that come from the daily gift of growing assurance of being forgiven.[7] We may more boldly make this request and be encouraged to expect to be forgiven, when and if we are assured in ourselves that we have genuinely, from the heart, forgiven others who have wronged us.[8]
| 1 | Matthew 6:12 | dummy text |
| 2 | Romans 3:9-22 | dummy text |
| Romans 5:19 | dummy text | |
| Matthew 18:24-25 | dummy text | |
| Psalms 130:3-4 | dummy text | |
| Micah 6:6-7 | dummy text | |
| 3 | Romans 3:24-26 | dummy text |
| Romans 5:19 | dummy text | |
| Hebrews 9:22 | dummy text | |
| Acts 13:39 | dummy text | |
| 4 | Ephesians 1:6-7 | dummy text |
| 5 | 2 Peter 1:2 | dummy text |
| 6 | Hosea 14:2 | dummy text |
| Jeremiah 14:7 | dummy text | |
| Psalms 143:2 | dummy text | |
| Psalms 130:3 | dummy text | |
| 7 | Romans 15:13 | dummy text |
| Romans 5:1-2 | dummy text | |
| Psalms 51:7-12 | dummy text | |
| 8 | Luke 11:4 | dummy text |
| Matthew 6:14-15 | dummy text | |
| Matthew 18:35 | dummy text |