Pay attention to yourselves! (A)If your brother sins, (B)rebuke him, and if he repents, (C)forgive him, and if he sins against you (D)seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Increase Our Faith

(E)The apostles said to the Lord, (F)“Increase our faith!” And the Lord said, (G)“If you had faith like (H)a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this (I)mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

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So watch yourselves.

“If your brother or sister[a] sins against you, rebuke them;(A) and if they repent, forgive them.(B) Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”(C)

The apostles(D) said to the Lord,(E) “Increase our faith!”

He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed,(F) you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 17:3 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a fellow disciple, whether man or woman.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

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