Matthew 18

1In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”Cross-references: Matt 3:2 · Matt 5:19 · Matt 7:21 · Matt 20:20 · Matt 23:11 · Mark 9:33 · +6 more

2Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of themCross-references: 1Ki 3:7 · Jer 1:7 · Matt 19:13 · Mark 9:36

3and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.Cross-references: Ps 51:10 · Ps 131:2 · Isa 6:10 · Matt 5:18 · Matt 5:20 · Matt 6:2 · +20 more

4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.Cross-references: Ps 131:1 · Isa 57:15 · Matt 18:1 · Matt 20:26 · Matt 23:11 · Mark 10:43 · +4 more

5Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,Cross-references: Matt 10:40 · Matt 25:40 · Matt 25:45 · Mark 9:37 · Mark 9:41 · Luke 9:48 · +3 more

6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.Cross-references: Ps 105:15 · Zech 2:8 · Zech 13:7 · Matt 18:10 · Matt 18:14 · Mark 9:42 · +8 more

7“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!Cross-references: Gen 13:7 · 1Sam 2:17 · 1Sam 2:22 · 2Sam 12:14 · Matt 13:41 · Matt 23:13 · +23 more

8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.Cross-references: Deut 13:6 · Isa 2:20 · Isa 30:22 · Isa 33:14 · Ezek 18:31 · Matt 5:29 · +15 more

9If 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 Gehenna of fire.Cross-references: Matt 5:22 · Matt 5:29 · Matt 16:26 · Matt 18:8 · Matt 19:17 · Matt 19:23 · +5 more

10See 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.Cross-references: Gen 32:1 · 2Sam 14:28 · 1Ki 22:19 · 2Ki 6:16 · Esth 1:14 · Ps 15:4 · +38 more

11For 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?Cross-references: 1Ki 21:17 · Ps 119:176 · Isa 53:6 · Jer 50:6 · Ezek 34:6 · Ezek 34:12 · +9 more

13If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.Cross-references: Ps 147:11 · Isa 53:11 · Isa 62:5 · Jer 32:37 · Mic 7:18 · Zeph 3:17 · +4 more

14Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.Cross-references: Isa 40:11 · Zech 13:7 · Matt 5:16 · Matt 6:9 · Matt 6:32 · Luke 12:32 · +11 more

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.Cross-references: Lev 6:2 · Lev 19:17 · Ps 141:5 · Prov 11:30 · Prov 25:9 · Matt 18:35 · +12 more

16But 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.Cross-references: Num 35:30 · Deut 17:6 · Deut 19:15 · 1Ki 21:13 · John 8:17 · 2Cor 13:1 · +4 more

17If 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.Cross-references: Ezra 6:21 · Ezek 11:12 · Matt 5:46 · Matt 6:7 · Matt 11:19 · Matt 21:31 · +17 more

18Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.Cross-references: Matt 16:19 · John 20:23 · Acts 15:23 · 1Cor 5:4 · 2Cor 2:10 · Rev 3:7

19Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.Cross-references: Matt 5:24 · Matt 7:7 · Matt 21:22 · Mark 11:24 · John 14:13 · John 15:7 · +13 more

20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ex 20:24 · Zech 2:5 · Matt 28:20 · John 8:58 · John 20:19 · +7 more

21Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”Cross-references: Matt 18:15 · Luke 17:3

22Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.Cross-references: Gen 4:24 · Isa 55:7 · Mic 7:19 · Matt 6:11 · Matt 6:14 · Mark 11:25 · +5 more

23Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.Cross-references: Matt 3:2 · Matt 13:24 · Matt 13:31 · Matt 13:33 · Matt 13:44 · Matt 13:47 · +9 more

24When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:7 · Ezra 9:6 · Ps 38:4 · Ps 40:12 · Ps 130:3 · Luke 7:41 · +3 more

25But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.Cross-references: Ex 21:2 · Lev 25:39 · 2Ki 4:1 · Neh 5:5 · Neh 5:8 · Isa 50:1 · +1 more

26The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’Cross-references: Matt 8:2 · Matt 18:29 · Luke 7:43 · Rom 10:3

27The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.Cross-references: Judg 10:16 · Neh 9:17 · Ps 78:38 · Ps 86:5 · Ps 86:15 · Ps 145:8 · +1 more

28“But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’Cross-references: Deut 15:2 · Neh 5:7 · Neh 5:10 · Neh 10:31 · Isa 58:3 · Ezek 45:9 · +1 more

29“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’Cross-references: Matt 6:12 · Matt 18:26 · Phlm 1:18

30He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:27 · 1Ki 22:27

31So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.Cross-references: Gen 37:2 · Ps 119:136 · Ps 119:158 · Jer 9:1 · Mark 3:5 · Luke 14:21 · +6 more

32Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.Cross-references: Matt 25:26 · Luke 19:22 · Rom 3:19

33Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’Cross-references: Matt 5:44 · Matt 6:12 · Luke 6:35 · Eph 4:32 · Col 3:13

34His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.Cross-references: Matt 5:25 · Matt 18:30 · Luke 12:58 · 2Thess 1:8 · James 2:13 · Rev 14:10

35So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”Cross-references: Prov 21:2 · Prov 21:13 · Jer 3:10 · Zech 7:12 · Matt 6:12 · Matt 6:14 · +8 more