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.”
21. Then Peter came to Him and said, “Master, how often shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?”
22. Yeshua said to him, “No, not up to seven times, I tell you, but seventy times seven!
23. Therefore, the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.
24. When he had begun to settle up, a man was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
25. But since he didn’t have the money to repay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
26. Then the slave fell on his knees and begged him, saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I’ll repay you everything.’
27. And the master of that slave, filled with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.
28. “Now that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii. And he grabbed him and started choking him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe!’