Few concepts are more basic to Christianity, or more important to a Christian's personal and spiritual wellbeing, than forgiveness. Yet in an age in which it has become fashionable to forgive oneself rather than to forgive others, can modern ways of understanding guilt, blame, mercy and justice be reconciled with the teaching of Jesus? MacArthur begins from the texts rather than from the therapeutic vocabulary.

He works through God's forgiveness of sinners, the believer's obligation to forgive, the relation of forgiveness to church discipline, and the hard cases where the offender is unrepentant or absent. The treatment is fuller than his short Truth About Forgiveness and more pastoral than polemical. For anyone carrying a grievance they cannot put down.