Bible Verses about “excommunication”

“¶ ‹Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.›”

“‹But if he will not hear› [thee, then] ‹take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.›”

“‹And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell› [it] ‹unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.›”

“‹For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.›”

“¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”

“A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;”

“‹Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.›”

“‹Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.›”

“But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”

“‹And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.›”

“¶ If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed:”

“¶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.”

“¶ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:”

“For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?”

“Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.”

“But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.”

“And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.”

“¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:”

“¶ It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.”

“Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.”

“Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”

“To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”

“And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.”

“For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, [concerning] him that hath so done this deed,”

“In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,”

“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

“So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.”

“To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes [forgave I it] in the person of Christ;”

“Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love toward him.”

“For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.”

“Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.”

“¶ But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.”

“Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which [was inflicted] of many.”