To forgive 70×7 times means to forgive every time the remembrance of another’s offense comes to mind…. In other words, as many times as it takes until you are wholly free of it. It does not mean to keep putting yourself in front of the unrepentant and repeat-offending individual to be abused or offended in the same way again and again…….. walk away. Turn that person over to God.
One is free to love, i.e. hold another in her heart and desire God’s best for that person, even when being in that person’s presence in fellowship is not possible due to the choices that person makes that would require her to violate her own values and worth. God “hates” sin….. that means God chooses to set a boundary that keeps it out of his holy presence, God limits his contact with and the influence sin can have on him and his abiding place. Jesus, in his humanity, showed compassion but always invited sin-filled persons to “go and sin no more.” He didn’t hang around hammering them, pleading with them, making his case in the face of their rejection, or letting them think he didn’t see or care that they persisted in their sinfulness. He extended forgiveness to the repentant. And Jesus let the willful sinner choose her own way.
CBB 7/3/21