Matthew 18:15-18

If Your Brother Sins Against You

15 ¹“If your brother sins against you, ²go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have ³gained your brother.

16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established ⁴by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

17 If he refuses to listen to them, ⁵tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, ⁶let him be to you as ⁷a Gentile and ⁸a tax collector.

18 Truly, I say to you, ⁹whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed^[a] in heaven.

Cross References

• 1. 18:15 Luke 17:3
• 2. 18:15 2 Thess. 3:15; [Titus 3:10; James 5:19]; See Lev. 19:17
• 3. 18:15 1 Cor. 9:19-22; 1 Pet. 3:1
• 4. 18:16 Deut. 19:15; 2 Cor. 13:1; [Num. 35:30; John 8:17; 1 Tim. 5:19; Heb. 10:28]
• 5. 18:17 [1 Cor. 5:4, 5; 6:1-6]
• 6. 18:17 [Rom. 16:17; 1 Cor. 5:9-13; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14; 2 John 10]
• 7. 18:17 ch. 5:46, 47
• 8. 18:17 ch. 5:46, 47
• 9. 18:18 [ch. 16:19; John 20:23]

Footnotes

• [a] 18:18 Or 'shall have been bound . . . shall have been loosed'