Luke 17:3

Jesus instructs disciples to watch themselves, rebuke a sinning brother, and forgive him if he repents. Loving accountability and forgiveness go together.

Cross-references · 18

• Lev 19:17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
• Matt 18:21Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
• Matt 18:15–17Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
• Prov 9:8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
• 2 Chr 19:6–7And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
• Jas 5:19Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
• Prov 27:5Open rebuke is better than secret love.
• Exod 34:12Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
• Deut 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
• Deut 4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
• 2 Jn 1:8Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
• Heb 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
• Ps 141:5Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
• Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Prov 17:10A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
• Eph 5:15See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
• Deut 4:15Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
• Gal 2:11–14But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

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