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 19:17“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
• Matt 18:21Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
• Matt 18:15–17“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
• Prov 9:8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
• 2 Chr 19:6–7and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
• Jas 5:19Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
• Prov 27:5Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
• Exod 34:12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the middle of you:
• Deut 4:23Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
• Deut 4:9Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
• 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
• Heb 12:15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• Ps 141:5Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
• Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Prov 17:10A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
• Eph 5:15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
• Deut 4:15Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
• Gal 2:11–14But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

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