13. And if it should be that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.
14. Just so it is not the will of My Father Who is in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost and perish.
15. If your brother wrongs you, go and show him his fault, between you and him privately. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
16. But if he does not listen, take along with you one or two others, so that every word may be confirmed and upheld by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
17. If he pays no attention to them [refusing to listen and obey], tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a pagan and a tax collector. [Lev. 19:17; Deut. 19:15.]
18. Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven.
19. Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about whatever [anything and everything] they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven.
20. For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) in (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them. [Exod. 3:14.]
21. Then Peter came up to Him and said, Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? [As many as] up to seven times?
22. Jesus answered him, I tell you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven! [Gen. 4:24.]
23. Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a human king who wished to settle accounts with his attendants.
24. When he began the accounting, one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talents [probably about $10,000,000],