Matthew 18:15
Good News Translation
"If your brother sins against you, go to him and show him his fault. But do it privately, just between yourselves. If he listens to you, you have won your brother back.

New Revised Standard Version
“If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one.

Contemporary English Version
If one of my followers sins against you, go and point out what was wrong. But do it in private, just between the two of you. If that person listens, you have won back a follower.

New American Bible
“If your brother sins [against you], go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

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Matthew 18:35 So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.

Leviticus 6:2-7 Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression; . . .

Luke 17:3,4 Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:6-8 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:12 Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

2 Corinthians 7:12 Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you

Colossians 3:13 Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.

1 Thessalonians 4:6 And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

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Leviticus 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

Psalm 141:5 The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Proverbs 25:9,10 Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger: . . .

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Proverbs 11:30 If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Romans 12:21 Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.

1 Corinthians 9:19-21 For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. . . .

James 5:19,20 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert him: . . .

1 Peter 3:1 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

Context
A Brother who Sins
14Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. 15But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother. 16And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:17
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

Proverbs 25:9
Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger:

Matthew 18:14
Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Matthew 18:21
Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

Luke 17:3
Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him.

1 Corinthians 9:19
For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

Galatians 6:1
Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

2 Thessalonians 3:15
Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother.

Titus 3:10
A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

James 5:19
My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert him:

Matthew 18:14
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