Matthew 18:17

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Summary

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Tell

Let

2 John 1:10

An heathen

A publican

General references

Proverbs 22:10

Bible References

Tell

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.

And the Apostles and the rulers of the church came together and gave thought to the question.

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you have come together with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;

I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.

Let

Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

For I myself, being present in spirit though not in body, have come to a decision about him who has done this thing;

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:

An heathen

And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

A publican

For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?

The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

A man, named Zacchaeus, who was the chief tax-farmer, and a man of wealth,

General references

Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.