Matthew 18:18-28

18 I solemnly tell you that whatever you as a Church bind on earth will in Heaven be held as bound, and whatever you loose on earth will in Heaven be held to be loosed.

19 I also solemnly tell you that if two of you here on earth agree together concerning anything whatever that they shall ask, the boon will come to them from my Father who is in Heaven.

20 For where there are two or three assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

21 At this point Peter came to Him with the question, "Master, how often shall my brother act wrongly towards me and I forgive him? seven times?"

22 "I do not say seven times," answered Jesus, "but seventy times seven times.

23 "For this reason the Kingdom of the Heavens may be compared to a king who determined to have a settlement of accounts with his servants.

24 But as soon as he began the settlement, one was brought before him who owed 10,000 talents,

25 and was unable to pay. So his master ordered that he and his wife and children and everything that he had should be sold, and payment be made.

26 The servant therefore falling down, prostrated himself at his feet and entreated him. "`Only give me time,' he said, `and I will pay you the whole.'

27 "Whereupon his master, touched with compassion, set him free and forgave him the debt.

28 But no sooner had that servant gone out, than he met with one of his fellow servants who owed him 100 shillings; and seizing him by the throat and nearly strangling him he exclaimed, "`Pay me all you owe.'