Luke 17:3
Good News Translation
So watch what you do! "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

New Revised Standard Version
Be on your guard! If another disciple sins, you must rebuke the offender, and if there is repentance, you must forgive.

Contemporary English Version
So be careful what you do. Correct any followers of mine who sin, and forgive the ones who say they are sorry.

New American Bible
Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him.

heed.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Exodus 34:12 Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:

Deuteronomy 4:9,15,23 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons, . . .

2 Chronicles 19:6,7 And charging the judges, he said: Take heed what you do: for you exercise not the judgment of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you judge, it shall redound to you. . . .

Ephesians 5:15 See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,

Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled:

2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward.

If.

Matthew 18:15-17,21 But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother. . . .

rebuke.

Leviticus 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

Psalm 141:5 The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Proverbs 9:8 Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it.

Proverbs 17:10 A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

Proverbs 27:5 Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Galatians 2:11-14 But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. . . .

James 5:19 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert him:

Context
Temptations and Trespasses
2It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones. 3Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him. 4And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day be converted unto thee, saying: I repent: forgive him.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:17
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

Matthew 18:15
But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

Luke 17:2
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