¹⁵‘And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; ¹⁶and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

¹⁷‘And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

¹⁸‘Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

¹⁹‘Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask—it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens, ²⁰for where there are two or three gathered together—to my name, there am I in the midst of them.’

²¹Then Peter having come near to him, said, ‘Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him—till seven times?’ ²²Jesus saith to him, ‘I do not say to thee till seven times, but till seventy times seven.

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