¹⁵“Now if your brother sins against you, go correct him between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. ¹⁶But if he does not listen, take with you in addition one or two others, so that by the testimony^f of two or three witnesses every matter may be established. ¹⁷And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it^* to the church. But if he refuses to listen to the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

¹⁸“Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven. ¹⁹Again, truly I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about any matter that they ask, it will be done for them from my Father who is in heaven. ²⁰For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them.”

The Parable of the Unforgiving Slave

²¹Then Peter came up to him and^* said,^g “Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I will forgive him? Up to seven times?” ²²Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven!^h

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Footnotes

fLiterally “the mouth”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
gSome manuscripts have “Then Peter came up and said to him”
hOr “seventy-seven times”