Matthew Chapter 18 verse 26 Holy Bible
The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
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So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.
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The bondman therefore falling down did him homage, saying, Lord, have patience with me and I will pay thee all.
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The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
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The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
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The servant then, having fallen down, was bowing to him, saying, Sir, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - Worshipped him. Prostrated himself before the monarch, and in this abject attitude sued for mercy. Have patience with me. Be long suffering in my case; give me time. And I will pay thee all. In his terror and anguish, he promises impossible things; even the revenues of a province would not in any convenient time supply this deficiency. The scene is very true to life. To save himself from a present difficulty, a debtor will make any promise that occurs to him, without considering whether he will ever be in a position to fulfil it. The defaulter in the parable must have thought well of the king's generosity and tenderheartedness to make such a proposition at this extreme moment. If we take the spiritual sense of the parable, we see that no sinner could offer to pay, much less pay, the debt due from him to his Lord, "so that must be let alone forever" (Psalm 49:8).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) Fell down, and worshipped him.--The word implies simply the prostrate homage of a servant crouching before his master.I will pay thee all.--The promise was, under such circumstances, an idle boast, but it describes with singular aptness the first natural impulse of one who is roused to a sense of the exceeding sinfulness of sin. He will try to balance the account as by a series of instalments; he will score righteous acts in the future as a set-off against the transgressions of the past. In theological language, he seeks to be "justified by works."
