1 In daardie uur het die dissipels na Jesus gekom en gesê: Wie is tog die grootste in die koninkryk van die hemele?
2 Toe roep Jesus 'n kindjie na Hom en laat hom in hulle midde staan
3 en Hy sê: Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, as julle nie verander en soos die kindertjies word nie, sal julle nooit in die koninkryk van die hemele ingaan nie!
4 Elkeen dan wat homself verneder soos hierdie kindjie, hy is die grootste in die koninkryk van die hemele.
5 En elkeen wat een van sulke kindertjies in my Naam ontvang, ontvang My;
6 maar elkeen wat een van hierdie kleintjies wat in My glo, laat struikel, dit is vir hom beter dat 'n meulsteen aan sy nek gehang word en hy wegsink in die diepte van die see.
7 Wee die wêreld weens die struikelblokke! Want dit is noodsaaklik dat daar struikelblokke kom, maar wee die mens deur wie die struikelblok kom.
8 En as jou hand of jou voet jou laat struikel, kap dit af en gooi dit weg van jou af; dit is vir jou beter om in die lewe in te gaan, kreupel of vermink, as om twee hande of voete te hê en in die ewige vuur gewerp te word.
9 En as jou oog jou laat struikel, ruk dit uit en werp dit weg van jou af. Dit is vir jou beter om met een oog in die lewe in te gaan, as om twee oë te hê en in die helse vuur gewerp te word.
10 Pas op dat julle nie een van hierdie kleintjies verag nie; want Ek sê vir julle dat hulle engele in die hemele altyd die aangesig sien van my Vader wat in die hemele is.
11 Want die Seun van die mens het gekom om te red wat verlore is.
12 Wat dink julle? As iemand honderd skape het en een van hulle verdwaal, sal hy nie die nege en negentig laat staan en op die berge die verdwaalde een gaan soek nie?
13 En as hy hom kry, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle dat hy blyer is oor hom as oor die nege en negentig wat nie verdwaal het nie.
14 So is dit nie die wil van julle Vader wat in die hemele is, dat een van hierdie kleintjies verlore gaan nie.
15 En as jou broeder teen jou sondig, gaan bestraf hom tussen jou en hom alleen. As hy na jou luister, dan het jy jou broeder gewin;
16 maar as hy nie luister nie, neem nog een of twee met jou saam, sodat in die mond van twee of drie getuies elke woord kan vasstaan.
17 En as hy na hulle nie luister nie, sê dit aan die gemeente; en as hy na die gemeente ook nie luister nie, laat hom vir jou wees soos die heiden en die tollenaar.
18 Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, alles wat julle op die aarde bind, sal in die hemel gebonde wees; en alles wat julle op die aarde ontbind, sal in die hemel ontbonde wees.
19 Weer sê Ek vir julle: As twee van julle saamstem op die aarde oor enige saak wat hulle mag vra, dit sal hulle ten deel val van my Vader wat in die hemele is.
20 Want waar twee of drie in my Naam vergader, daar is Ek in hul midde.
21 Toe kom Petrus na Hom en sê: Here, hoe dikwels sal my broeder teen my sondig en ek hom vergewe? Tot sewe maal toe?
22 Jesus antwoord hom: Ek sê vir jou, nie tot sewe maal toe nie, maar tot sewentig maal sewe toe.
23 Daarom word die koninkryk van die hemele vergelyk met 'n sekere koning wat met sy diensknegte wou afreken.
24 En toe hy begin afreken, word daar een na hom gebring wat tien duisend talente skuldig was.
25 En omdat hy nie kon betaal nie, gee sy heer bevel dat hy verkoop moet word, en sy vrou en sy kinders en alles wat hy het, en dat betaal moet word.
26 Toe val die dienskneg neer en buig voor hom en sê: Heer, wees lankmoedig met my, en ek sal u alles betaal.
27 En die heer van daardie dienskneg het innig jammer vir hom gevoel en hom losgelaat en hom die skuld kwytgeskeld.
28 Maar toe daardie dienskneg uitgaan en een van sy medediensknegte vind wat hom honderd pennings skuldig was, het hy hom aan die keel gegryp en gesê: Betaal my wat jy skuld.
29 Sy mededienskneg val toe voor sy voete neer en smeek hom en sê: Wees lankmoedig met my, en ek sal jou alles betaal.
30 En hy wou nie, maar het gegaan en hom in die gevangenis gewerp totdat hy die skuld sou betaal het.
31 En toe sy medediensknegte sien wat gebeur het, was hulle baie bedroef, en hulle het gegaan en aan hulle heer meegedeel alles wat gebeur het.
32 Daarop roep sy heer hom en sê vir hom: Jou slegte dienskneg, al daardie skuld het ek jou kwytgeskeld, omdat jy my gesmeek het;
33 moes jy nie jou mededienskneg ook barmhartig wees soos ek jou ook barmhartig gewees het nie?
34 En sy heer het hom in toorn oorgegee aan die pynigers totdat hy sou betaal het alles wat hy hom skuldig was.
35 So sal ook my hemelse Vader aan julle doen as julle nie elkeen sy broeder van harte sy oortredinge vergewe nie.
1 In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,
3 And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me:
6 But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.
7 A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.
8 And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.
9 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.
10 Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.
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12 What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?
13 And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
14 Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.
15 And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.
16 But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.
17 And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.
18 Truly I say to you, Whatever things are fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.
19 Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three are come together in my name, there am I among them.
21 Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?
22 Jesus says to him, I say not to you, Till seven times; but, Till seventy times seven.
23 For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.
24 And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents.
25 And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.
26 So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.
27 And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.
28 But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.
29 So that servant went down on his face, requesting him and saying, Give me time and I will make payment to you.
30 And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.
31 So when the other servants saw what was done they were very sad, and came and gave word to their lord of what had been done.
32 Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:
33 Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you?
34 And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.
35 So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.