Matthew 18:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he refuses to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax collector.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν δὲ παρακούσῃ αὐτῶν, εἰπὲ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ: ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας παρακούσῃ, ἔστω σοι ὥσπερ ὁ ἐθνικὸς καὶ ὁ τελώνης.

Transliteration

If but parakousē of them, eipe to the ekklēsia: if but also of the ekklēsias parakousē, estō to you as the ethnikos and the telōnēs.

Grammar Details

• *parakousē*: verb, aorist, active, subjunctive, 3rd person, singular - might refuse to listen
• *eipe*: verb, aorist, active, imperative, 2nd person, singular - tell/say
• *ekklēsia*: noun, dative, feminine, singular - church/assembly
• *ekklēsias*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - church/assembly
• *estō*: verb, present, active, imperative, 3rd person, singular - let be/let him be
• *ethnikos*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - gentile/heathen
• *telōnēs*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - tax collector

Word Meanings

• *parakousē*: might refuse to listen/disregard/ignore
• *eipe*: tell/say/speak
• *ekklēsia*: church/assembly/congregation
• *estō*: let be/let him be/must be
• *ethnikos*: gentile/heathen/pagan
• *telōnēs*: tax collector/publican

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And{G1161} if{G1437} he refuse to hear{G3878} them,{G846} tell{G2036} it unto the church:{G1577} and{G1161} if{G1437} he refuse to hear{G3878} the church{G1577} also, let him be{G2077} unto you{G4671} as{G5618} the Gentile{G1482} and{G2532} the tax collector.{G5057}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And{G1161} if{G1437} he shall neglect to hear{G3878}{(G5661)} them{G846}, tell{G2036}{(G5628)} it unto the church{G1577}: but{G1161}{G2532} if{G1437} he neglect to hear{G3878}{(G5661)} the church{G1577}, let him be{G2077}{(G5749)} unto thee{G4671} as{G5618} an heathen man{G1482} and{G2532} a publican{G5057}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  If he heare not them tell it vnto the congregacion. If he heare not ye congregacion take him as an hethen man and as a publican.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yf he heare not them, tell it vnto the congregacion. Yf he heare not the cogregacion, holde him as an Heithen and Publican.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And if he refuse to heare them, tell it vnto the Church: and if he refuse to heare the Church also, let him be vnto thee as an heathen man, and a Publicane.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  If he heare not them, tell it vnto the Churche: If he heare not the Churche, let hym be vnto thee as an Heathen man, and a publicane.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ‹And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell› [it] ‹unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.›

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And if he may not hear them, say `it' to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.
• 1 Cor 5:3-5 : 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has done this deed, as though I were present. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 Deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• 1 Cor 5:9-6:7 : 9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet not entirely with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the greedy, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what do I have to do with judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 1 Do any of you, having a matter against someone else, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? 4 If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one who shall be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?
• 2 Thess 3:14-15 : 14 And if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, note that person and do not associate with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
• Ezra 6:21 : 21 And the children of Israel who had returned from captivity, and all those who had separated themselves unto them from the impurity of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, ate,
• Ezek 11:12 : 12 And you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, nor executed my judgments, but have done according to the ways of the nations that are around you.
• 2 Cor 6:14-17 : 14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
• Eph 4:17-19 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Eph 5:11-12 : 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
• 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. 10 Therefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with that, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids those who would, and casts them out of the church.
• 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
• 2 John 1:10-11 : 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him. 11 For he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
• Acts 15:6-7 : 6 And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up and said to them, Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
• Rom 16:17-18 : 17 Now I urge you, brethren, mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them. 18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own appetites; and by smooth talk and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocent.
• 2 Cor 2:6-7 : 6 The punishment inflicted by many is sufficient for such a person. 7 So, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
• Matt 5:46 : 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
• Matt 6:7 : 7 But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathens do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
• Matt 11:19 : 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.
• Matt 21:31-32 : 31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax collectors and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and harlots believed him, and when you had seen it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.
• Luke 15:1 : 1 Then all the tax collectors and sinners drew near to him to hear him.
• Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
• Luke 19:2-3 : 2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, who was the chief among the tax collectors, and he was rich. 3 And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.
• Acts 6:1-3 : 1 In those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a complaint by the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them and said, It is not right that we should leave the word of God to serve tables. 3 Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this duty.