Bible Verses about โexcommunicationโ
The Bible contains 33 verses about excommunication across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
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
โFor where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."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
โAgain, 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.โ
โMost 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.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
โI will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven."โ
โIf anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,โ
โNow we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.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
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
โIf any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.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
โthat no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.โ
โso that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.โ
โNow I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,โ
โTherefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.โ
โFor to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.โ
โof whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.โ
โBut if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.โ
โSufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;โ
