Book of Common Prayer

¹² But whoever has sinned without law will perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

¹³ For before God they are not righteous who hear the law, but the doers of the law will be justified. ¹⁴ For if the Gentiles who have no law do by nature the things contained in the law, then they, having no law, are a law unto themselves. ¹⁵ They show the deeds of the law written in their hearts, while their conscience bears witness to them, and also their thoughts, accusing one another or defending, ¹⁶ on the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

¹⁷ Behold, you are called a Jew, and trust in the law, and put confidence in God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and have confirmation of good and bad in that you are instructed by the law. ¹⁹ And you believe that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness – ²⁰ an instructor of those who lack wisdom and a teacher of the unlearned, who has the example of that which ought to be known, and of the truth, in the law. ²¹ But you who teach another, do not teach yourself. You preach that a person should not steal, and yet you steal. ²² You say a person should not commit adultery, and you break wedlock. You abhor images, and rob God of his honour. ²³ You boast in the law, and through breaking the law dishonour God. ²⁴ For the name of God is ill spoken of among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.

¹⁰ See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven. ¹¹ Yea, and the Son of man has come to save that which is lost. ¹² What do you think: if a man has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains and go and seek that one which has gone astray? ¹³ If it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. ¹⁴ In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

¹⁵ Moreover, if your brother trespasses against you, go and tell him his fault between him and you alone. If he hears you, you have redeemed your brother. ¹⁶ But if he does not hear you, then take along with you one or two others, so that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every matter may be established. ¹⁷ If he does not hear them, tell it to the congregation. If he does not hear the congregation, take him as a heathen man and as a publican. 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 in heaven.

¹⁹ Again I say to you, if two of you agree in earth about any manner of thing, whatsoever they desire, it shall be given them by my Father who is in heaven. ²⁰ For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.