Matthew 18:17

Fellowship and the church Conflict and reconciliation

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

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.

¹⁸ Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

¹⁹ Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is 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, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
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1 Corinthians 5:9–6:7
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
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2 Thessalonians 3:14–15
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
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1 Corinthians 5:3–5
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
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2 John 1:10–11
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
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Ephesians 5:11–12
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
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Ephesians 4:17–19
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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Romans 16:17–18
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
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