15 Wherefore, if your brother trespass against you, go and expostulate with him, when you and he are alone together. If he hear you, you have gained your brother;

16 but if he will not hear, take one or two along with you, that by the testimony of two or three witnesses everything may be ascertained.

17 If he despises them, tell the congregation; and if he despise the congregation also, let him be to you as a pagan or a publican.

18 Indeed, I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind on the earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.

19 Again, I say to you, whatever two of you upon the earth shall agree to ask, shall be granted them by my Father, who is in heaven.

20 For wherever two or three are assembled in my name, I am in the midst of them.