If Your brother sins against you

open the bible to Matthew 18:15-22

Matthew 18:15 (ESV)

15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 15

a [brother] Anyone of the same religious society.

b [tell him his fault between thee and him alone] Three steps in church discipline:

1. Settle all personal differences by yourself (

Matthew 18:35 (ESV)

35 So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”

1 Corinthians 6:6–8 (ESV)

6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!

Romans 12:21 (ESV)

21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Matthew 18:16 (ESV)

16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Deuteronomy 19:15 (ESV)

15 “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.

John 8:17 (ESV)

17 In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.

1 Timothy 5:19 (ESV)

19 Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Matthew 18:17 (ESV)

17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 17

Seven New Testament reasons for excommunication:

1. A trespass (Greek: hamartia (GSN-<G266>), sin, note,

1 Corinthians 5:3–5 (ESV)

3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 2:6–7 (ESV)

6 For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, 7 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

Matthew 18:18 (ESV)

18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 18

a [bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven] See notes,

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 19

Notes For Verse 19

Matthew 16:19 (ESV)

19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

2 Corinthians 2:10 (ESV)

10 Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,

Revelation 3:7–8 (ESV)

7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

8 “ ‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

Matthew 18:19 (ESV)

19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 19

a [Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven] The word “again” means “once more” and evidently points to a repeat of the truth of

Matthew 21:22 (ESV)

22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

John 15:7 (ESV)

7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Ephesians 6:18–20 (ESV)

18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 19 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Matthew 18:20 (ESV)

20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 20

a [two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them] Not only can two condemn a man in a church court of trial (

John 20:19 (ESV)

19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

Matthew 28:20 (ESV)

20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 18:21 (ESV)

21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 21

Notes For Verse 21

a [how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?] Questions 96–97. Next,

Luke 17:3–4 (ESV)

3 Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, 4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Matthew 18:22 (ESV)

22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible Notes for Verse 22

a [Until seventy times seven] Until 490 times, or indefinitely.

Micah 7:19 (ESV)

19 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Mark 11:25 (ESV)

25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Colossians 3:13 (ESV)

13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.