8 Bible Verses about Church Discipline

This punishment which for many to such a one is sufficient; so on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one may be swallowed up with excessive grief. Therefore I exhort you to stir up your divine love for him:

Speak these things and exhort and convict with all authority; let no one despise thee.

But if any one does not obey our word through the epistle, note him; do not keep company with him; in order that he may be ashamed;

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and that you are not able to bear the wicked; and you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them to be liars:

But if thy brother may sin, go, and convict him between thee and him alone: if he may hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother: if he may not hear thee, take with thyself one or two, in order that in the mouth of two or three witnesses the word may stand. But if he may not hear them, tell the church: and if indeed he may not hear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and publican.

This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith,

Brethren, if indeed a man may be overtaken in some transgression, you who are spiritual, perfect such an one in the spirit of meekness; watching yourself, lest you may also be tempted.

Take away the wicked person from you, yourselves.