15 If your brother does something wrong to you, go to him. Talk alone to him and tell him what he has done. If he listens to you, you have kept your brother as a friend.
16 But if he does not listen to you, take one or two others with you to talk to him. Then two or three people will hear every word and can prove what was said.
17 If he does not listen to them, tell the church. If he does not listen to the church, treat him as one who does not believe in God and as bad as a tax collector.
18 I tell you the truth. What you tie on earth will be tied in heaven. What you set free on earth will be set free in heaven.
19 I tell you another thing. If two of you on earth agree together to ask for something, my Father in heaven will do it for them.
20 Where two or three people meet together in my name, I am there with them.