Luke 17:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

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  • Lev 19:17 : 17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
  • Matt 18:21 : 21 Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
  • Matt 18:15-17 : 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.
  • Exod 34:12 : 12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
  • 2 Chr 19:6-7 : 6 and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment. 7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
  • Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; Let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; Don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
  • Prov 9:8 : 8 Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
  • Prov 17:10 : 10 A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding Than a hundred lashes into a fool.
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Better is open rebuke Than hidden love.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
  • Eph 5:15 : 15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
  • Jas 5:19 : 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
  • Gal 2:11-14 : 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
  • Deut 4:15 : 15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 4 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."

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    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.

  • 81%

    33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'

    34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

    35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

  • 79%

    21 Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"

    22 Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

    23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

  • Matt 5:23-25
    3 verses
    79%

    23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

    24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

    25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

  • Matt 6:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

    15 But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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    25 Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

    26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions."

  • Luke 17:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

    2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

  • 15 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

  • 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

  • 17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

  • 7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

  • 37 Don't judge, And you won't be judged. Don't condemn, And you won't be condemned. Set free, And you will be set free.

  • 22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

  • 19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

  • Matt 7:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

  • 4 Forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.'"

  • 3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.

  • 12 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

  • 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

  • Luke 6:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

    41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    42 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.

  • Mark 3:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28 Most assuredly I tell you, all of the children of men's sins will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;

    29 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"

  • 9 He who covers an offense promotes love; But he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

  • 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 Gehenna{or, Hell} of fire.

  • 19 then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • 29 To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.

  • 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

  • 12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

  • 16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.

  • 10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

  • 10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

  • 7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.

  • 31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

  • 47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

  • 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!