correcting a brother

¹And, brothers, if a man has been overtaken by any offense, you who are spiritual should instruct someone like this with a spirit of leniency, considering that you yourselves might also be tempted.

¹⁵But if your brother has sinned against you, go and correct him, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have regained your brother. ¹⁶But if he will not listen you, invite with you one or two more, so that every word may stand by the mouth of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷And if he will not listen to them, tell the Church. But if he will not listen to the Church, let him be to you like the pagan and the tax collector.

¹⁵But if your brother has sinned against you, go and correct him, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have regained your brother.

¹⁵But do not be willing to consider him as an enemy; instead, correct him as a brother.

¹⁷But I beg you, brothers, to take note of those who cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and to turn away from them.

¹⁹My brothers, if anyone of you strays from the truth, and if someone converts him,

²⁰Reprove sinners in the sight of everyone, so that the others may have fear.

¹⁰Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction, ¹¹knowing that one who is like this has been subverted, and that he offends; for he has been condemned by his own judgment.

²that you should preach the word urgently, in season and out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke, with all patience and doctrine.

¹⁰Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,

¹⁶All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice, ¹⁷so that the man of God may be perfect, having been trained for every good work.

¹Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father. ²And yet you are inflated, and you have not instead been grieved, so that he who has done this thing would be taken away from your midst. ³Certainly, though absent in body, I am present in spirit. Thus, I have already judged, as if I were present, him who has done this. ⁴In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you have been gathered together with my spirit, in the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵to hand over such a one as this to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁶It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?