8 Bible Verses about Church Discipline
Most Relevant Verses
Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many. So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness. Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him.
And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.
I know thy works, and thy fatigue, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear the wicked: and thou bast tried them saying they are sent, and are not, and thou Last found them liars:
And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he hear thee not, take with thee yet one or two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might stand. And if he refuse hearing them, speak to the church: and if he refuse hearing the church, let him be to thee as of the nations and a publican.
This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them severely, that they may be sound in the faith;
Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.