16But 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.


In Context

13 If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

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.

18 Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

Matthew 18:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:16But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:16And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:16But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:16But if he do not hear thee, take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:16But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:16But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:16and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:16But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.