Matthew 18:17
15 If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
16 But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
18 Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19 Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.
- BLB
- And if he may fail to hear them, say [it] to the church. And if he may fail to hear even the church, let him be unto you as the Gentile and the tax collector.
- ÅB
- Men hører han ikke på dem, så si det til menigheten! Om om han ikke hører på menigheten heller, så skal du betrakte ham som en hedning og en toller.
- OTB
- Hvis de nekter å lytte til dem, fortell det til menigheten; og hvis de nekter å lytte selv til menigheten, behandle dem som du ville en hedning eller en toller.
- B1930
- Men hører han ikke på dem, da si det til menigheten! men hører han heller ikke på menigheten, da skal han være for dig som en hedning og en tolder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.
Read in context1 Corinthians 5:9–6:7
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 3:14–15
Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
Read in context1 Corinthians 5:3–5
Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
Read in context2 John 1:10–11
If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.
Read in contextEphesians 5:11–12
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
Read in contextEphesians 4:17–19
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
Read in contextRomans 16:17–18
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
Read in context