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Matthew 18:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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‘Do not harbour hatred against your brother.  , Rebuke your neighbour directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.


bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive.


Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle  spirit,  , watching out for yourselves so that you won’t also be tempted.


Yet don’t consider him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.


So also my heavenly Father will do to you unless every one of you forgives his brother or sister   from your heart.’


Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.


In the same way, wives,  submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the word,  they may be won over  without a word by the way their wives live


Now when you sin like this against brothers and sisters and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.


The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but a cunning person takes lives.


So even though I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong, or because of the one who was wronged, but in order that your devotion to us might be made plain to you in the sight of God.


This means one must not transgress against and take advantage  of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offences, as we also previously told and warned you.


In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.


Then Peter approached him and asked, ‘Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? As many as seven times? ’


Reject a divisive  person after a first and second warning.





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