17And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a aheathen and a tax collector.
18“Assuredly, I say to you, awhatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19a“Again1 I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, bit will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
20For where two or three are gathered atogether in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant
21 Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? aUp to seven times?”
22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, aup to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
