Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Christ teaches his disciples to avoid occasions of evil, to forgive one another, steadfastly to trust in God, and that no one should presume in his own works. He heals the ten lepers, and speaks of the latter days, and of the end of the world.

17 Then Jesus said to his disciples, It cannot be avoided but that offences will come. Nevertheless, woe be to him through whom they come. ² It would be better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck and that he were cast into the sea, than that he should hurt one of these little ones.

³ Take heed to yourselves. If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴ And even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to you saying, I am sorry – forgive him.