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What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?
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And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
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Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
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"Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
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But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.'
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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 heathen and a tax collector.
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Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
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Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
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For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."
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Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"
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Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.