Matthew 18:17 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹⁷ But if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the assembly. But if he refuses even to hear the assembly, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax collector.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If he pays no attention to them [refusing to listen and obey], tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a pagan and a tax collector. [Lev. 19:17; Deut. 19:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But if they still won’t pay attention, report it to the church. If they won’t pay attention even to the church, treat them as you would a Gentile and tax collector.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And if he will not listen to them, tell the Church. But if he will not listen to the Church, let him be to you like the pagan and the tax collector.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.

Matthew 18:17 Cross References

Matthew 10:3

Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, who was surnamed Thaddaeus;

Matthew 11:19

"The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' And so wisdom is justified by her children."

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 6:7

But when you pray, do not babble like the heathen, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Luke 15:1

Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to Him to hear Him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men-swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote to you in my epistle not to associate with fornicators.

1 Corinthians 6:1

Does any of you, having a matter against another, dare go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

2 Thessalonians 3:6

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother living in idleness, and not according to the tradition which they received from us.

1 Timothy 6:5

constant wranglings of men of corrupt minds and having been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of profit. Withdraw from such [people].