But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.

And although you were ¹  dead ²  in your transgressions and sins,

It is a guilt offering; he was surely guilty before the Lord.”

He must bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, a guilt offering ram, ¹ 

And even though you were dead in your ¹  transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless ²  made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

“For if you forgive others ¹  their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us ¹  the message of reconciliation.

“‘This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.

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Then he must bring his guilt offering to the Lord, a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels, ¹  for a guilt offering to the priest.

“When a person commits a trespass ¹  and sins by straying unintentionally ²  from the regulations about the Lord’s holy things, ³  then he must bring his penalty for guilt ⁴  to the Lord, a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel, ⁵  for a guilt offering. ⁶ 

He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. ¹  Amon was guilty of great sin. ² 

In him ¹  we have redemption through his blood, ²  the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar ¹  as a gift to the Lord. It is a guilt offering.

Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion. ¹ 

I will make ¹  the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign Lord.”

And the gift is not like the one who sinned. ¹  For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, ²  led to condemnation, but ³  the gracious gift from the many failures ⁴  led to justification.

Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor – which resulted in the plague among the community of the Lord!

“Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In this way too your fathers blasphemed me when they were unfaithful to me.

Now the law came in ¹  so that the transgression ²  may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,