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Matthew 18:19
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17 And 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.  
19 a“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.  
20 For 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.  
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Matthew 18:19

Again I say unto you, That if two of you ... - This is connected with the previous verses. The connection is this: The obstinate man is to be excluded from the church, Matthew 18:17. The care of the church - the power of admitting or excluding members - of organizing and establishing it - is committed to you, the apostles, Matthew 18:18. Yet there is not need of the whole to give validity to the transaction. When two of you agree, or have the same mind, feelings, and opinion, about the arrangement of affairs in the church, or about things desired for its welfare, and shall ask of God, it shall be done for them. See Acts 1:14-26; 15:1-29. The promise here has respect to the apostles in organizing the church. It cannot with any propriety be applied to the ordinary prayers of believers. Other promises are made to them, and it is true that the prayer of faith will be answered, but that is not the truth taught here.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Matthew 18:19:

Daniel 2:18
Daniel 2:49
Matthew 18:20
Acts 15:6
Acts 15:28

 

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