^12 (A)“What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? ¹³ And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. ¹⁴ Even so it is not the ^(B)will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Dealing with a Sinning Brother

¹⁵ “Moreover ^(C)if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, ^(D)you have gained your brother. ¹⁶ But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ^(E)‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ ¹⁷ And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a ^(F)heathen and a tax collector.

¹⁸ “Assuredly, I say to you, ^(G)whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

^19 (H)“Again^[a] I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, ^(I)it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. ²⁰ For where two or three are gathered ^(J)together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”