27 Bible Verses about Excommunication

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Matthew 18:15-18

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.read more.
Truly I say to you, Whatever things ye should bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever things ye should loose upon earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 16:19

And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens: and whatever thou shalt bind upon earth shall be bound in the heavens: and whatever thou shalt loose upon earth shall be loosed in the heavens.

1 Corinthians 5:1-6

In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife. And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you. For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this.read more.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?

1 Timothy 1:20

Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

1 Corinthians 5:11-13

And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such. For what to me also to judge them without? do ye yourselves judge them within And them without God judges. And take ye away evil from yourselves.

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all. 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.read more.
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him. For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things. And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ; That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

Leviticus 18:29

For every one which shall do from all of these abominations, and the souls doing were cut off from the midst of their people

Numbers 15:30

And the soul which shall do with a high hand, from the native, and from the stranger, it reproaches Jehovah, and that soul was cut off from the midst of its people.

Numbers 19:20

And a man who shall be unclean and shall not be purified, and that soul was cut off from the midst of the gathering, for he defiled the holy place of Jehovah: the water of uncleanness was not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Matthew 18:15-17

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.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13

I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators. And not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.read more.
For what to me also to judge them without? do ye yourselves judge them within And them without God judges. And take ye away evil from yourselves.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.

Titus 3:9-11

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man, a heretic after one and the second admonition, reject; Knowing such to be turned back, and he sins, being self-condemned.

John 9:22

These said his parents, for they feared the Jews: for already had the Jews agreed, that if any should acknowledge him Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

John 12:42

Yet nevertheless also many of the rulers believed in him; but on account of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge, lest they should be excluded from the synagogue:

Luke 6:22

Happy are ye, when men hate you, and when they separate you, and reproach, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

John 9:34

They answered and said to him, In sins wert thou wholly born, and teachest thou us? And they cast him without.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;

Ezra 10:8

And every one who shall not come in three days according to the counsel of the chiefs and the old men, all his substance shall be devoted, and he shall be separated from the convocation of the exile.

Psalm 36:11

The foot of pride shall not come to me, and the hand of the unjust shall not move me.

1 Kings 22:46

And the remainder of the holy place which was left in the days of Asa his father, he took away from the land.

1 Corinthians 5:2

And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you.

3 John 1:10

Therefore, if I should come, I will put him in mind of his works which he does, talking silly against us with evil words: and not being satisfied in these, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and hinders those being willing, and casts out of the church.

Galatians 4:17

They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.

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Exodus 30:33

A man who shall perfume like it, and shall give to the stranger, and he shall be cut off from his people.

John 9:34

They answered and said to him, In sins wert thou wholly born, and teachest thou us? And they cast him without.

Exodus 12:15

Seven days ye shall eat unleavened; wholly in the first day shall ye turn away leaven in your houses; for all eating leavened and that soul was destroyed from Israel from the first day even to the seventh day.

Leviticus 7:20

And the soul which shall eat the flesh of the sacrifice of peace which to Jehovah, and his uncleanness upon him, that soul was cut off from its people.

Leviticus 17:9

And at the door of the tent of appointment brought it not to do it to Jehovah; and that man was cut off from his people.

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