Dealing With Sin in the Church

¹⁵ “If your brother or sister^[a] sins,^[b] go and point out their fault,^(A) just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.

²³ And the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” So he went before the king and bowed with his face to the ground.

¹⁵ Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience^(A) means salvation,^(B) just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.^{(C) 16} He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable^(D) people distort,^(E) as they do the other Scriptures,^(F) to their own destruction.

Paul Opposes Cephas

¹¹ When Cephas^(A) came to Antioch,^(B) I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

³² King David said, “Call in Zadok^(A) the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” When they came before the king, ³³ he said to them: “Take your lord’s servants with you and have Solomon my son mount my own mule^(B) and take him down to Gihon.^{(C) 34} There have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint^(D) him king over Israel. Blow the trumpet^(E) and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ ³⁵ Then you are to go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.”

³⁶ Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, so declare it. ³⁷ As the Lord was with my lord the king, so may he be with^(F) Solomon to make his throne even greater^(G) than the throne of my lord King David!”

³⁸ So Zadok^(H) the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites^(I) and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.^{(J) 39} Zadok the priest took the horn of oil^(K) from the sacred tent^(L) and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet^(M) and all the people shouted,^(N) “Long live King Solomon!” ⁴⁰ And all the people went up after him, playing pipes^(O) and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.