Matthew 18:10-20
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
10“See that you do not despise aone of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven btheir angels always csee the face of my Father who is in heaven. ▼▼Some manuscripts add verse 11: For the Son of Man came to save the lost
12 eWhat do you think? fIf a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 13And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. 14So git is not the will of my ▼▼Some manuscripts your
Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. If Your Brother Sins Against You
15 i“If your brother sins against you, jgo and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have kgained your brother. 16But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established lby the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17If he refuses to listen to them, mtell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, nlet him be to you as oa Gentile and pa tax collector. 18Truly, I say to you, qwhatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed ▼▼Or shall have been bound . . . shall have been loosed
in heaven. 19Again I say to you, if two of you sagree on earth about anything they ask, tit will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20For where two or three are ugathered in my name, vthere am I among them.”
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