Matthew 18:12-20

12“What do you think? 1If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? 13If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. 14So it is not the will 2of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

15“3If your brother sins4, go and 5show him his fault 6in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. 16But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that 7by the mouth of two or three witnesses every 8fact may be confirmed. 17If he refuses to listen to them, 9tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, 10let him be to you as 11a Gentile and 12a tax collector. 18Truly I say to you, 13whatever you 14bind on earth 15shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you 16loose on earth 17shall have been loosed in heaven.

19“Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, 18it shall be done for them 19by My Father who is in heaven. 20For where two or three have gathered together in My name, 20I am there in their midst.”