¹⁶ But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’^{[a](A) 17} If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church;^(B) and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.^(C)

¹⁸ “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be^[b] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be^[c] loosed in heaven.^(D)

² So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers^(A) criticized him

³ and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”^(A)

¹⁹ Do not entertain an accusation against an elder^(A) unless it is brought by two or three witnesses.^{(B) 20} But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove^(C) before everyone, so that the others may take warning.^{(D) 21} I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus^(E) and the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism.