Restoring a Brother

15 “If your brother sins against you,(a) go and rebuke him in private.(b) If he listens to you, you have won your brother.(A) 16 But if he won’t listen, take one or two more with you, so that by the testimony(c) of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.(B)(d) 17 If he pays no attention to them, tell the church.(e)(C) But if he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like an unbeliever(f) and a tax collector to you.(D)

Footnotes:

a. Matthew 18:15: Other mss omit against you
b. Matthew 18:15: Lit him between you and him alone
c. Matthew 18:16: Lit mouth
e. Matthew 18:17: Or congregation
f. Matthew 18:17: Or like a Gentile

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