15. “Now if your brother sins against you, go correct him between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
16. But if he does not listen, take with you in addition one or two others, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.
17. And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses to listen to the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
18. “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven.
19. Again, truly I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about any matter that they ask, it will be done for them from my Father who is in heaven.
20. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them.”
21. Then Peter came up to him and said, “Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I will forgive him? Up to seven times?”
22. Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven!
23. “For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man—a king—who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.
24. And when he began to settle them, someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents.
25. And because he did not have enough to repay it, the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.
26. Then the slave threw himself to the ground and began to do obeisance to him, saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay back everything to you!’
27. So the master of that slave, because he had compassion, released him and forgave him the loan.
28. But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii, and taking hold of him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back everything that you owe!’
29. Then his fellow slave threw himself to the ground and began to implore him, saying, ‘Be patient with me and I will repay you!’
30. But he did not want to, but rather he went and threw him into prison until he would repay what was owed.
31. So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were extremely distressed, and went and reported to their master everything that had happened.
32. Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘Wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you implored me!