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Mateus 18 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
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1At about the same time, the disciples came to Jesus asking, "Who gets the highest rank in God's kingdom?"
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1In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
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2For an answer Jesus called over a child, whom he stood in the middle of the room,
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2Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,
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3and said, "I'm telling you, once and for all, that unless you return to square one and start over like children, you're not even going to get a look at the kingdom, let alone get in.
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3and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
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4Whoever becomes simple and elemental again, like this child, will rank high in God's kingdom.
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4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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5What's more, when you receive the childlike on my account, it's the same as receiving me.
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5Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
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6"But if you give them a hard time, bullying or taking advantage of their simple trust, you'll soon wish you hadn't. You'd be better off dropped in the middle of the lake with a millstone around your neck.
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6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
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7Doom to the world for giving these God-believing children a hard time! Hard times are inevitable, but you don't have to make it worse—and it's doomsday to you if you do.
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7“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
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8"If your hand or your foot gets in the way of God, chop it off and throw it away. You're better off maimed or lame and alive than the proud owners of two hands and two feet, godless in a furnace of eternal fire.
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8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
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9And if your eye distracts you from God, pull it out and throw it away. You're better off one-eyed and alive than exercising your twenty-twenty vision from inside the fire of hell.
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9If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
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10"Watch that you don't treat a single one of these childlike believers arrogantly. You realize, don't you, that their personal angels are constantly in touch with my Father in heaven?
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10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
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11For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
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12"Look at it this way. If someone has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders off, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine and go after the one?
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12“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
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13And if he finds it, doesn't he make far more over it than over the ninety-nine who stay put?
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13If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
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14Your Father in heaven feels the same way. He doesn't want to lose even one of these simple believers.
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14Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
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15"If a fellow believer hurts you, go and tell him—work it out between the two of you. If he listens, you've made a friend.
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15“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.
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16If he won't listen, take one or two others along so that the presence of witnesses will keep things honest, and try again.
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16But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
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17If he still won't listen, tell the church. If he won't listen to the church, you'll have to start over from scratch, confront him with the need for repentance, and offer again God's forgiving love.
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17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
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18"Take this most seriously: A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on earth is no in heaven. What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this.
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18Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.
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19When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action.
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19Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
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20And when two or three of you are together because of me, you can be sure that I'll be there."
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20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
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21At that point Peter got up the nerve to ask, "Master, how many times do I forgive a brother or sister who hurts me? Seven?"
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21Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
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22Jesus replied, "Seven! Hardly. Try seventy times seven.
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22Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
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23"The kingdom of God is like a king who decided to square accounts with his servants.
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23Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
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24As he got under way, one servant was brought before him who had run up a debt of a hundred thousand dollars.
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24When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
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25He couldn't pay up, so the king ordered the man, along with his wife, children, and goods, to be auctioned off at the slave market.
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25But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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26"The poor wretch threw himself at the king's feet and begged, 'Give me a chance and I'll pay it all back.'
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26The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’
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27Touched by his plea, the king let him off, erasing the debt.
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27The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
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28"The servant was no sooner out of the room when he came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him ten dollars. He seized him by the throat and demanded, 'Pay up. Now!'
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28“But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
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29"The poor wretch threw himself down and begged, 'Give me a chance and I'll pay it all back.'
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29“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’
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30But he wouldn't do it. He had him arrested and put in jail until the debt was paid.
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30He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.
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31When the other servants saw this going on, they were outraged and brought a detailed report to the king.
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31So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
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32"The king summoned the man and said, 'You evil servant! I forgave your entire debt when you begged me for mercy.
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32Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
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33Shouldn't you be compelled to be merciful to your fellow servant who asked for mercy?'
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33Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
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34The king was furious and put the screws to the man until he paid back his entire debt.
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34His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
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35And that's exactly what my Father in heaven is going to do to each one of you who doesn't forgive unconditionally anyone who asks for mercy."
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35So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”