Matthew 18:10-20 (Gospel)
- 10
- Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
- 11
- For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
- 12
- What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?
- 13
- And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
- 14
- Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
- 15
- Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
- 16
- But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’
- 17
- And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
- 18
- Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
- 19
- Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
- 20
- For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”