12What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?
13And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
14Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.
15And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.
16But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.
17And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.
18Truly I say to you, Whatever things are fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.
