Matthew 18:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible
15 ¶ (A)[a]Moreover, if thy brother trespass against [b]thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast won thy brother.
16 But if he hear thee not, take yet with thee one or two, that by the (B)[c]mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be [d]confirmed.
17 [e]And if he [f]refuse to hear them, tell it unto the [g]Church: and if he refuse to hear the Church also, let him be unto thee as an [h]heathen man, and a Publican.
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- Matthew 18:15 We must labor for concord, not to revenge injuries.
- Matthew 18:15 If his offence be such, that thou only knowest thy brother’s offence.
- Matthew 18:16 That is, by the word and witness the mouth is sometime taken for the word or speech, Num. 3:16, and also for a still witness, to wit, when the matter speaketh of itself, as in Matt. 21:16.
- Matthew 18:16 Sure and certain.
- Matthew 18:17 He that contemneth the judgment of the Church, contemneth God.
- Matthew 18:17 Word for word, do not vouchsafe to hear, or make as though he did not hear.
- Matthew 18:17 He speaketh not of any kind of policy, but of an Ecclesiastical assembly, for he speaketh afterward of the power of loosing and binding, which belonged to the Church, and he hath regard to the order used in those days, at what time the Elders had the judgment of Church matters in their hands, John 9:22 and 12:42 and 16:2, and used casting out of the Synagogue for a punishment, as we do now excommunication.
- Matthew 18:17 Profane, and void of religion: such men, the Jews called Gentiles: whose company they shunned as they did the Publicans.
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