21 Bible Verses about Excommunication

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Matthew 18:15-18

And if thy brother trespass against thee, go and expostulate with him alone; if he hearken to thee, thou hast gained thy brother: but if he regard thee not, take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he disregard them, tell it to the church: but if he disregard the church too, let him be unto thee as an heathen and a publican.read more.
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.

Matthew 16:19

And I will give 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.

1 Corinthians 5:1-6

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife. And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you? For I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him who hath wrought this wickedness: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,read more.
when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say, of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

1 Timothy 1:20

of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

1 Corinthians 5:11-13

But now I have written to you, not to associate with him, if any one, that is called a brother, be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious; with such a one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge those that are without? and do not ye judge those that are within? But those who are without, God judgeth: and therefore put away the wicked one from among you.

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

And if any one hath caused grief, it hath grieved me only as to part of you, (that I may not overcharge you all) though sufficient to such a one is the censure passed on him by many. So that on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and comfort him, least such a one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.read more.
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love to him. For to this end also did I write, that I might have proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. And to whom ye forgive any thing, I also forgive it: for if I have forgiven any thing, I forgave it him, to whom I did forgive it, for your sakes, in the person of Christ; that we might not be foiled by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Matthew 18:15-17

And if thy brother trespass against thee, go and expostulate with him alone; if he hearken to thee, thou hast gained thy brother: but if he regard thee not, take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he disregard them, tell it to the church: but if he disregard the church too, let him be unto thee as an heathen and a publican.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13

I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers: but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then go out of the world. But now I have written to you, not to associate with him, if any one, that is called a brother, be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious; with such a one no not to eat.read more.
For what have I to do to judge those that are without? and do not ye judge those that are within? But those who are without, God judgeth: and therefore put away the wicked one from among you.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who walketh disorderly, and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

Titus 3:9-11

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain: reject therefore such an heretical man, after the first and second admonition; knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth as being self-condemned.

John 9:22

These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed, that if any one confessed Him to be Christ, he should be turned out of the synagogue.

John 12:42

There were however many of the chief rulers that believed on Him; but because of the pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be excommunicated.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and reject you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as infamous on account of the Son of man.

John 9:34

They answered, and said unto him, Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us?

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; who are displeasing to God, and contrary to all men:

1 Corinthians 5:2

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

3 John 1:10

Therefore when I come, I will remember his deeds, prating against us with wicked words: and not content with these, he neither receiveth the brethren himself, nor suffers those that would; and casteth them out of the church.

Galatians 4:17

They are zealous for you, but not as they ought: for they would exclude us, that ye may be zealous for them:

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