September 13, 2015

If Your Brother Sins Against You

¹⁵ “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. ¹⁶ But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. ¹⁸ Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed^[a] in heaven. ¹⁹ Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ²⁰ For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

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Footnotes

Matthew 18:18 Or shall have been bound… shall have been loosed

Cross references

Matthew 18:15 : Luke 17:3 Matthew 18:15 : 2 Thess. 3:15; [Titus 3:10; James 5:19]; See Lev. 19:17 Matthew 18:15 : 1 Cor. 9:19-22; 1 Pet. 3:1 Matthew 18:16 : Deut. 19:15; 2 Cor. 13:1; [Num. 35:30; John 8:17; 1 Tim. 5:19; Heb. 10:28] Matthew 18:17 : [1 Cor. 5:4, 5; 6:1-6] Matthew 18:17 : [Rom. 16:17; 1 Cor. 5:9-13; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14; 2 John 10] Matthew 18:17 : ch. 5:46, 47 Matthew 18:17 : ch. 5:46, 47 Matthew 18:18 : [ch. 16:19; John 20:23] Matthew 18:19 : [Acts 12:5, 12; Philem. 22] Matthew 18:19 : See ch. 7:7 Matthew 18:20 : [Acts 4:30, 31; 1 Cor. 5:4] Matthew 18:20 : [ch. 28:20; John 12:26; 20:20, 26]

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