Luke 17:3

Green's Literal Translation

Take heed to yourselves. And if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Be

King James Version (1611)
Take heed to your selues: If thy brother trespasse against thee, rebuke him, and if he repent, forgiue him.

King James Version
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

English Standard Version
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,

New American Standard Bible
"Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

New Century Version
So be careful! "If another follower sins, warn him, and if he is sorry and stops sinning, forgive him.

Amplified Bible
"Pay attention and always be on guard [looking out for one another]! If your brother sins and disregards God's precepts, solemnly warn him; and if he repents and changes, forgive him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Berean Standard Bible
Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Contemporary English Version
So be careful what you do. Correct any followers of mine who sin, and forgive the ones who say they are sorry.

Complete Jewish Bible
Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Darby Translation
Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.

Easy-to-Read Version
So be careful! "If your brother or sister in God's family does something wrong, warn them. If they are sorry for what they did, forgive them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Take heede to your selues: if thy brother trespasse against thee, rebuke him: and if hee repent, forgiue him.

George Lamsa Translation
Beware among yourselves. If your brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Good News Translation
So watch what you do! "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

Lexham English Bible
"Be concerned about yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

American Standard Version
Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Bible in Basic English
Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.

Hebrew Names Version
Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

International Standard Version
"Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.Leviticus 19:17; Proverbs 17:10; Matthew 18:15,21; James 5:19;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Take heed to yourselves; if thy brother transgress, reprove him, and if he repent, forgive him.

Murdock Translation
Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother transgress, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take heede to your selues: If thy brother trespasse agaynst thee, rebuke hym: and yf he repent, forgeue hym.

English Revised Version
Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

World English Bible
Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin against thee, rebuke him, and if he repent, forgive him.

Weymouth's New Testament
Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Take ye hede you silf; if thi brothir hath synned ayens thee, blame hym; and if he do penaunce, foryyue hym.

Update Bible Version
Take heed to yourselves: if your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother shall trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he shall repent forgive him.

New English Translation
Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

New King James Version
Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, [fn] rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

New Living Translation
So watch yourselves! "If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive.

New Life Bible
"Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, speak sharp words to him. If he is sorry and turns from his sin, forgive him.

New Revised Standard
Be on your guard! If another disciple sins, you must rebuke the offender, and if there is repentance, you must forgive.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be taking heed to yourselves, - If thy brother sin, rebuke him, and, if he repent, forgive him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance, forgive him.

Revised Standard Version
Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Take hede to youre selves. If thy brother trespas agaynst the rebuke him:

Young's Literal Translation
`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take hede to youre selues. Yf thy brother trespace agaynst the, rebuke him:

Mace New Testament (1729)
take care of your conduct. if your brother offend you, rebuke him, and if he repent, forgive him.

THE MESSAGE
"Be alert. If you see your friend going wrong, correct him. If he responds, forgive him. Even if it's personal against you and repeated seven times through the day, and seven times he says, ‘I'm sorry, I won't do it again,' forgive him."

Simplified Cowboy Version
And I ain't talkin' about other people. I'm talking to you."If a cowboy on God's crew starts sinning, talk to him about it and warn him. If he listens and gets back on the right trail, then forgive him.

Contextual Overview

¹ And He said to the disciples, It is impossible that the offenses should not come, but woe to him by whom they come! ² It is profitable for him if a millstone turned by an ass is put around his neck, and he be thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ³ Take heed to yourselves. And if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴ And if seven times of the day he sins against you, and seven times of the day turns to you saying, I repent, you shall forgive him. ⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord, Give us more faith. ⁶ But the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard, you may say to this sycamine tree, Be rooted up and be planted in the sea! And it would obey you. ⁷ But which of you having a slave plowing or feeding will say at once to him coming out of the field, Come, recline? ⁸ But will he not say to him, Prepare something what I may eat, and having girded yourself, serve me until I eat and drink, and after these things you shall eat and drink? ⁹ Does not he have thanks to that slave because he did the things commanded of him? I think not. ¹⁰ So also when you have done all things commanded you, you say, We are unprofitable slaves, for we have done what we ought to do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heed: Luke 21:34, Exodus 34:12, Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 4:15, Deuteronomy 4:23, 2 Chronicles 19:6, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Ephesians 5:15, Hebrews 12:15, 2 John 1:8

If: Matthew 18:15-17, Matthew 18:21

rebuke: Leviticus 19:17, Psalms 141:5, Proverbs 9:8, Proverbs 17:10, Proverbs 27:5, Galatians 2:11-14, James 5:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:17 - Forgive Exodus 22:9 - for all manner of trespass Judges 11:8 - the elders Matthew 6:12 - as Luke 6:37 - forgive Colossians 3:13 - forgiving

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
And Abraham fell on his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, Shall one be born to a son of a hundred years? And shall Sarah bear, a daughter of ninety years?

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before You!

Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all the ones born of his house, and all that were bought with his silver, every male among the men of the house of Abraham. And he circumcised the flesh of theirforeskins in that same day, even as Godspoke to him.

Genesis 17:24
And Abraham was a son of ninety nine years when being circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Exodus 3:6
And He said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he feared to look upon God.

Numbers 14:5
And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

Numbers 16:22
And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, God of the spirits of all flesh; shall one man sin, and will You be angry with all the congregation?

Numbers 16:45
Get away from the midst of this company, and I shall consume them in a moment; and they fell on their faces.

Joshua 5:14
And He said, No, for I now come as the Commander of the army of Jehovah. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped. And he said to Him, What does my Lord speak to His slave?

Judges 13:20
And it happened as the flame from off the altar was going up to the heavens, that the Angel of Jehovah went up in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife were watching. And they fell on their faces to the ground.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take heed to yourselves..... Or to one another, that ye neither give, nor take offence. Take heed to your spirits, to your doctrines, walk, and conversation, that you give no offence to any, that you are not stumbled by what you shall see in, and meet with from others:

if thy brother trespass against thee; :-

rebuke him; privately, and proceed according to the rules there directed to; lay his sin before him; endeavour not only to convince him of the fact, but of the evil of it; how contrary to the will of God; how unbecoming the Gospel of Christ, and the profession he makes; how hurtful to himself, as well as injurious to his brother; and how such evils give the enemy occasion to reproach the saints, to speak evil of the ways of God, and blaspheme the name and doctrines of Christ, and harden sinners in their sins, as well as stumble weak Christians, and sadden the hearts of the righteous.

And if he repent; if he is made sensible of his evil, and is truly sorry for it, and ingenuously acknowledges it:

forgive him; the injury committed against a man's self; and pray to God for him, for an application of his pardoning grace and mercy to him; and comfort him with the hope of forgiveness with God, by the gracious promises and declarations of pardon made to such persons; drop all resentment and anger, and behave towards him with all sweetness of temper, and affability, and respect: and this is to be done immediately, as soon as a man repents: and so say the Jews p;

"says R. Chanina bar Papa, whoever commits a thing, and repents of it, they forgive him directly; as it is said, Malachi 3:5 "and fear not me": lo, they that fear me, forgive immediately:''

such were reckoned good men, men fearing God.

p T. Bab. Chagiga, fol. 5. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 18:15, Matthew 18:21-22. “Trespass against thee.” Sin against thee, or does anything that gives you an offence or does you an injury.

Rebuke - Reprove. Go and tell him his fault, and seek an explanation. Acquaint him with what has been the effect of his conduct, and the state of your feelings, that he may acknowledge his error and repent.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 17:3-4. If thy brother trespass — See the notes on Matthew 18:21; Matthew 18:22.