If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. The community discipline procedure begins: private confrontation. The brother who sins against you receives a private audience — no public accusation, no community involvement at this stage. The goal of the confrontation is not punishment but recovery: you have gained your brother. The gaining language communicates the relational restoration that successful private confrontation produces.

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