Bible Verses about โcorrecting a brotherโ
The Bible contains 26 verses about correcting a brother across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โEvery Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,โ
โthat the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.โ
โ"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.โ
โBut 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.โ
โIf 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.โ
โNow I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.โ
โAvoid a factious man after a first and second warning;โ
โpreach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.โ
โBrothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.โ
โknowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.โ
โBut as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.โ
โBrothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,โ
โPurge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.โ
โFor what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within?โ
โThose who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.โ
โTherefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.โ
โBut those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."โ
โDon't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.โ
โI wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;โ
โIt is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.โ
โyet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.โ
โYour boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?โ
โare to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.โ
โYou are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.โ
โFor I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.โ
โIn the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,โ
