10. “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father in heaven.
11. [footnote: Some manuscripts add verse 11: For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost;]
12. “What do you think? If a certain man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go looking for the one that is straying?
13. And if he finds it, amen I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t stray.
14. Even so, it’s not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.”
15. “Now if your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault while you’re with him alone. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.
16. But if he does not listen, take with you one or two more, so that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.’
17. But if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to Messiah’s community. And if he refuses to listen even to Messiah’s community, let him be to you as a pagan and a tax collector.
18. “Amen, I tell you, whatever you forbid on earth will have been forbidden in heaven and what you permit on earth will have been permitted in heaven.
19. Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in heaven.
20. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst.”