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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Matthew 18 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Matthew 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/17.htm" title="Matthew 17">◄</a> Matthew 18 <a href="../matthew/19.htm" title="Matthew 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Who Is the Greatest?</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 9:33-37">Mark 9.33-37</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 9:46-48">Luke 9.46-48</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_1"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.1" class="v40_18_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> At that time the disciples came to Jesus, asking, “Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_2"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.2" class="v40_18_2">2</span>So Jesus called a child to come and stand in front of them, </span><span class="v40_18_3"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.3" class="v40_18_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and said, “I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. </span><span class="v40_18_4"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.4" class="v40_18_4">4</span>The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child. </span><span class="v40_18_5"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.5" class="v40_18_5">5</span>And whoever welcomes in my name one such child as this, welcomes me.</span></p><h3 class="s">Temptations to Sin</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 9:42-48">Mark 9.42-48</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 17:1">Luke 17.1</ref>,<ref loc="LUK 17:2">2</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_6"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.6" class="v40_18_6">6</span>“If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea. </span><span class="v40_18_7"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.7" class="v40_18_7">7</span>How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen—but how terrible for the one who causes them!</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_8"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.8" class="v40_18_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “If your hand or your foot makes you lose your faith, cut it off and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life without a hand or a foot than to keep both hands and both feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. </span><span class="v40_18_9"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.9" class="v40_18_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Parable of the Lost Sheep</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LUK 15:3-7">Luke 15.3-7</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_10"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.10" class="v40_18_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven.<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.10!x.3" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_12"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.12" class="v40_18_12">12</span>“What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep. </span><span class="v40_18_13"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.13" class="v40_18_13">13</span>When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost. </span><span class="v40_18_14"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.14" class="v40_18_14">14</span>In just the same way your<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost.</span></p><h3 class="s">When Someone Sins</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_15"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.15" class="v40_18_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “If your brother sins against you,<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.15!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> go to him and show him his fault. But do it privately, just between yourselves. If he listens to you, you have won your brother back. </span><span class="v40_18_16"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.16" class="v40_18_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But if he will not listen to you, take one or two other persons with you, so that ‘every accusation may be upheld by the testimony of two or more witnesses,’ as the scripture says. </span><span class="v40_18_17"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.17" class="v40_18_17">17</span>And if he will not listen to them, then tell the whole thing to the church. Finally, if he will not listen to the church, treat him as though he were a pagan or a tax collector.</span></p><h3 class="s">Prohibiting and Permitting</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_18"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.18" class="v40_18_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “And so I tell all of you: what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_19"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.19" class="v40_18_19">19</span>“And I tell you more: whenever two of you on earth agree about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. </span><span class="v40_18_20"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.20" class="v40_18_20">20</span>For where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_21"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.21" class="v40_18_21">21</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.21!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_22"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.22" class="v40_18_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “No, not seven times,” answered Jesus, “but seventy times seven,<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.18.22!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v40_18_23"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.23" class="v40_18_23">23</span>because the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who decided to check on his servants' accounts. </span><span class="v40_18_24"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.24" class="v40_18_24">24</span>He had just begun to do so when one of them was brought in who owed him millions of dollars. </span><span class="v40_18_25"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.25" class="v40_18_25">25</span>The servant did not have enough to pay his debt, so the king ordered him to be sold as a slave, with his wife and his children and all that he had, in order to pay the debt. </span><span class="v40_18_26"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.26" class="v40_18_26">26</span>The servant fell on his knees before the king. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay you everything!’ </span><span class="v40_18_27"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.27" class="v40_18_27">27</span>The king felt sorry for him, so he forgave him the debt and let him go.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_28"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.28" class="v40_18_28">28</span>“Then the man went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a few dollars. He grabbed him and started choking him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he said. </span><span class="v40_18_29"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.29" class="v40_18_29">29</span>His fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back!’ </span><span class="v40_18_30"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.30" class="v40_18_30">30</span>But he refused; instead, he had him thrown into jail until he should pay the debt. </span><span class="v40_18_31"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.31" class="v40_18_31">31</span>When the other servants saw what had happened, they were very upset and went to the king and told him everything. </span><span class="v40_18_32"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.32" class="v40_18_32">32</span>So he called the servant in. ‘You worthless slave!’ he said. ‘I forgave you the whole amount you owed me, just because you asked me to. </span><span class="v40_18_33"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.33" class="v40_18_33">33</span>You should have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you.’ </span><span class="v40_18_34"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.34" class="v40_18_34">34</span>The king was very angry, and he sent the servant to jail to be punished until he should pay back the whole amount.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_18_35"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.18.35" class="v40_18_35">35</span>And Jesus concluded, “That is how my Father in heaven will treat every one of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">18.10: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some manuscripts add verse 11: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">For the Son of Man came to save the lost </char><char style="ft" closed="false">(see Lk 19.10).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">18.14: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">your; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">my.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">18.15: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some manuscripts do not have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">against you.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">18.22: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">seventy times seven; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">seventy-seven times.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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