8 Bible Verses about Church Discipline

Sufficient for the offender is the punishment imposed by the majority; so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief. So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.

Thus speak, exhort, reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

If any man does not give heed to what I have said in this letter, mark that man; do not associate with him, so as to make him feel ashamed;

I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.

"If your brother sins against you, go and show him, between yourself and him alone. If he listens, you have won your brother. "But if he will not listen to you, take one or two others along, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he will not listen to them, tell the church; "but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

This testimony is true. So rebuke them sharply,

Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.

Expel that wicked man from among you.