7"Woe to the worldbecause of its stumblingblocks! For 1it is inevitable that stumblingblockscome; but woe to that manthroughwhom the stumblingblockcomes!
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"2If your handor your footcauses you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enterlifecrippledorlame, than to havetwohandsortwofeet and be cast into the eternalfire.
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"3If your eyecauses you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enterlife with oneeye, than to havetwoeyes and be cast into the 4fieryhell.
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"See that you do not despiseone of theselittleones, for I say to you that 5their angels in heavencontinually*see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
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[ "6For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.]
Ninety-nine Plus One
12"What do you think? 7Ifanymanhas a hundredsheep, and one of them has goneastray, does he not leave the ninety-nine* on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?
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"If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoicesover it morethanover the ninety-nine* which have not goneastray.
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"So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of theselittleonesperish.
Discipline and Prayer
15"8If your brothersins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
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"But if he does not listen to you, takeoneortwomore with you, so that 9BY THE MOUTH OF TWOORTHREEWITNESSESEVERYFACT MAY BE CONFIRMED.
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"If he refuses to listen to them, 10tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listeneven to the church, 11let him be to you as a Gentile and a taxcollector.
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"Truly I say to you, 12whatever* you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever* you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
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"Again I say to you, that iftwo of you agree on earthaboutanything* that they may ask, 13it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.
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"For wheretwoorthree have gatheredtogether in My name, 14I amthere in their midst."