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It would be better for him if a mill’s stone were lying-around his neck and he had been[a] thrown-off into the sea, than that he should cause one of these[b] little ones to fall. Take heed to yourselves— If your brother sins, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in the day, and returns to you seven times saying ‘I repent’, forgive him”.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 17:2 Better to be once and for all dead at the bottom of the sea than to do this and face the eternal consequences.
  2. Luke 17:2 That is, such insignificant ones as Lazarus and the sinners and tax collectors in the audience (15:1) disdained by the Pharisees, assuming 15:1 to 17:10 was spoken on a single occasion; otherwise, those confronted by the causes of falling mentioned in v 1.

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