Matthew 18:16
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 19:15 : 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
- John 8:17 : 17 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
- 2 Cor 13:1 : 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word established."
- 1 Tim 5:19 : 19 Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
- Heb 10:28 : 28 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
- Num 35:30 : 30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
- Deut 17:6 : 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
- 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
- 1 John 5:7-8 : 7 For there are three who testify{Only a few recent manuscripts add "in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth"}: 8 the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.
- Rev 11:3 : 3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Matt 18:17-204 verses85%
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.
18 Most assuredly I tell you, whatever things you will bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever things you will release on earth will be released in heaven.
19 Again, 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.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."
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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.
- Deut 19:15-195 verses79%
15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,
17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
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.
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1 This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word established."
- Deut 17:6-83 verses76%
6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
8 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;
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19 Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
- Luke 17:3-42 verses74%
3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
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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17 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
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29 Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
- 2 Thess 3:14-152 verses70%
14 If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
15 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
- Matt 5:23-253 verses69%
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.
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58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
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1 "'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
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20 To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
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9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
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13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
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6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
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5 As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."
- Deut 25:2-32 verses67%
2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
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.
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19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
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35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
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12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,
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1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
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9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
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14 Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
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16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
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21 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?
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3 Do two walk together, Unless they have agreed?
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8 "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
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15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
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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.
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15 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
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27 If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
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56 For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn't agree with each other.