he refuses to hear even the Church, regard him just as you
regard a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.
018:018 I solemnly tell you that whatever you as a Church bind on earth
will in Heaven be held as bound, and whatever you loose
on earth will in Heaven be held to be loosed.
018:019 I also solemnly tell you that if two of you here on earth agree
together concerning anything whatever that they shall ask,
the boon will come to them from my Father who is in Heaven.
018:020 For where there are two or three assembled in my name,
there am I in the midst of them."
018:021 At this point Peter came to Him with the question, "Master,
how often shall my brother act wrongly towards me and I
forgive him? seven times?"
018:022 "I do not say seven times," answered Jesus, "but seventy
times seven times.
018:023 "For this reason the Kingdom of the Heavens may be compared
to a king who determined to have a settlement of accounts
with his servants.
018:024 But as soon as he began the settlement, one was brought before
him who owed 10,000 talents,
018:025 and was unable to pay. So his master ordered that he and his
wife and children and everything that he had should be sold,
and payment be made.
018:026 The servant therefore falling down, prostrated himself at
his feet and entreated him. "`Only give me time,' he said,
`and I will pay you the whole.'
018:027 "Whereupon his master, touched with compassion, set him free
and forgave him the debt.
018:028 But no sooner had that servant gone out, than he met with one
of his fellow servants who owed him 100 shillings; and seizing