rsv Matthew:18:5-17
rsv@Matthew:18:5 @ "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me;
rsv@Matthew:18:6 @ but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
rsv@Matthew:18:7 @ "Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes!
rsv@Matthew:18:8 @ And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
rsv@Matthew:18:9 @ And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
rsv@Matthew:18:10 @ "See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.
rsv@Matthew:18:11 @ What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?
rsv@Matthew:18:12 @ And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.
rsv@Matthew:18:13 @ So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
rsv@Matthew:18:14 @ "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
rsv@Matthew:18:15 @ But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
rsv@Matthew:18:16 @ If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
rsv@Matthew:18:17 @ Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
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