5 Bible Verses about Accusations, In Church Affairs

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1 Timothy 5:19

Against an elder receive not an accusation, except by two or three witnesses.

Matthew 18:15-20

But if your brother sins against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not hear you, take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established; and if he will not hear them, tell the assembly; and if he will not hear the assembly, let him be to you as a gentile and a publican.read more.
I tell you truly, that whatever you bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you unbind on the earth shall be unbound in heaven. Again, I tell you, that if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any thing for which they shall ask, they shall have it from my Father in heaven; for where two or three are assembled together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 5:25-26

Agree with your accuser quickly, while you are with him in the way, lest the accuser deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. I tell you truly, you shall not go out thence till you have paid the last quadrans [4 mills].

Luke 12:58-59

For when you go with your adversary to a ruler, on the way labor to be released from him, lest he take you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison; I tell you that you shall not go out thence till you have paid even the last lepton [2 mill].

1 Corinthians 6:1-8

Dare any of you having a business with another be judged by the wicked, and not by the saints? Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts? Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then things pertaining to this life?read more.
If then you have courts for the business of this life, do you constitute them of the most abject in the church? I speak to your shame. Is there not now a wise man among you? not one who can judge between his brothers? But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers. Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why not rather be defrauded? But you injure and defraud, and that your brothers.

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