Matthew 18

1 At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

2 And calling forth [a] little child, he set him in the midst of them,

3 and said, “Amen I say to you, if you not have not turned and become as the little children, not at all may you enter the kingdom of heaven.

4 Whoever, therefore, will humble himself as this little child, that one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

5 And whoever would receive one such little child in my name, receives me.

6 Yet whoever may snare one of the little [ones], these, who believe in Me, it profits him that [a] heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the ocean.

7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! For a necessity [is] the coming of stumbling blocks, but woe to the person through whom the stumbling block comes!

8 Then, if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast [it] from you. Better it is for you to enter into life lame or maimed, than two hands or two feet having to be cast into the eternal fire.

9 And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast [it] from you. Better it is for you one-eyed to enter into life, than two eyes having, to be cast into the hell of the fire.

10 See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heavens through all see the face of my Father in heavens.

11 Indeed, the son of the human came to save the lost.

12 What is worthy to you? If there be for a person one hundred sheep, and one of them is led astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go to seek the one going astray?

13 And if he come to find it, amen, I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine not having gone astray.

14 In this way, [a] desire is not before your Father in Heavens that one of these little ones should perish.

15 Then, if the sibling of yours sin, go away [and] reprove him between you and him alone. If he hear you, you have won the sibling of yours.

16 But if he not hear, take with you one or two more, so that ‘upon [a] mouth of two witnesses or three every word be established.’

17 But if he be unhearing toward them, tell the ekklesia. But if he be unhearing even toward the ekklesia, he must be to you like the heathen and the tax collector.

18 Amen 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, amen, I say to you that if two of you agree on the earth concerning any matter about which they ask, it will be to them by the Father of Mine, Him in Heavens.

20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

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