Verse 3
Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
Referenced Verses
- 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 many be defiled by it;
- 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 his 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 Good News, 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 kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.