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OET by section MAT 18:15

MAT 18:15–18:17 ©

Confronting an offender

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18:15 Confronting an offender

15[ref]If a fellow believer sins, go where there’s just the two of you and rebuke that person privately. If they listen to you, you have gained back a fellow believer. 16[ref]But if they don’t listen to you, take one or two others with you, so that there’ll be two or three witnesses to verify the message. 17Then if that person still refuses to listen, tell the whole assembly. If they still refuse to hear from the assembly, treat them like a non-believer or a tax-collector.[fn]


18:17 Some might read this as a command to shun the person, but perhaps it would be better read as ‘treat them as a lost person who needs to be saved’?


15And if the brother of_you may_sin, be_going, rebuke him between you and him only.
If he_may_hear from_you, you_gained the brother of_you.
16But if he_may_ not _hear, take one or two more with you in_order_that on the_mouth of_two or three witnesses, every message may_be_established.
17And if he_may_refuse_to_hear from_them, tell to_the assembly.
And if he_may_ also _refuse_to_hear from_the assembly, him_let_be to_you as the pagan and the tax_collector.

MAT 18:15–18:17 ©

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