The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but a cunning person takes lives.
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but a cunning person takes lives.
‘Do not harbour hatred against your brother. , Rebuke your neighbour directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.
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? ’
So also my heavenly Father will do to you unless every one of you forgives his brother or sister from your heart.’
Now when you sin like this against brothers and sisters and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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