Matthew 18:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If your brother wrongs you, go and show him his fault, between you and him privately. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

American Standard Version (1901)

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

Common English Bible

“If your brother or sister sins against you, go and correct them when you are alone together. If they listen to you, then you’ve won over your brother or sister.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But if your brother has sinned against you, go and correct him, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have regained your brother.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

Matthew 18:15 Cross References

Psalm 141:5

Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness, but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head; for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but lawlessness takes away lives.

Leviticus 19:17

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him.

Matthew 18:14

So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Matthew 18:21

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”

Matthew 18:35

So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”

Romans 12:21

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Corinthians 8:12

Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your zeal for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Colossians 3:13

forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you.

2 Thessalonians 3:15

Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

Titus 3:10

As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him,

1 Peter 3:1

Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the word, may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,