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OET-RV by cross-referenced section MAT 18:15

MAT 18:15–18:17 ©

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Confronting an offender

Mat 18:15–17

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’?


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Luk 17:3:

3[ref]Take great care.

If a fellow-believer disobeys God, scold them, and then if they stop and request forgiveness, forgive them.


17:3: Mat 18:15.

Deu 19:15:

19:15 The concerning the witnesses

15[ref]


19:15: Num 35:30; Deu 17:6; Mat 18:16; Yhn 8:17; 2Cor 13:1; 1Tim 5:19; Heb 10:28.