Discipline and Prayer

15 (A)If your brother sins[a], go and [b]show him his fault [c]in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. 16 But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that (B)by the mouth of two or three witnesses every [d]fact may be confirmed. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, (C)tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, (D)let him be to you as [e]a Gentile and [f]a tax collector.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:15 Late mss add against you
  2. Matthew 18:15 Or reprove
  3. Matthew 18:15 Lit between you and him alone
  4. Matthew 18:16 Lit word
  5. Matthew 18:17 Lit the
  6. Matthew 18:17 Lit the

15 `And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

16 and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

17 `And if he may not hear them, say [it] to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

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