9. If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehinnom of fire.
10. See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
11. For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
12. “What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
13. If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
14. Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
15. “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
16. But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
17. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.