21 Bible Verses about Excommunication

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Matthew 18:15-18

And if your brother sin against you, go and tell him of his fault between you and him alone; if he hear you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear you, take with you one or two more, that, by the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established. But if he refuse to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he also refuse to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen man and a publican.read more.
Verily, I say to you, my disciples, Whatever you bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 16:19

And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you shall bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.

1 Corinthians 5:1-6

It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles that a certain one has his father's wife. And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you. For I, in deed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing;read more.
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit have come together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we deliver such a one over to 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; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

1 Corinthians 5:11-13

but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat. For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within? But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

But if any one has caused grief, he has grieved, not me only, but, in some measure not to speak harshly all of you. Sufficient for such a one is the punishment, which was inflicted by the greater number: so that, on the other hand, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest such a one should be swallowed up in too much sorrow.read more.
Wherefore, I exhort you to give him an assurance of your love. For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things. Whom you forgive any thing, I forgive it also: for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven any thing, I have forgiven for your sake, in the person of Christ, lest an advantage should be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Matthew 18:15-17

And if your brother sin against you, go and tell him of his fault between you and him alone; if he hear you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear you, take with you one or two more, that, by the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established. But if he refuse to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he also refuse to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen man and a publican.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13

I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons; yet without the lest allusion to the lewd, or the covetous, or the extortioners, or the idolaters of this world; for then you must go out of the world; but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.read more.
For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within? But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother that walks disorderly, and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

Titus 3:9-11

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

John 9:22

His parents said this, because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed, that if any one should confess him to be the Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

John 12:42

But yet, many even of the rulers believed on him; but on account of the Pharisees, they would not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and shall withdraw themselves from you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.

John 9:34

They answered and said to him: You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and do not please God, and are opposed to all men,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

1 Corinthians 5:13

But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.

3 John 1:10

Therefore, if I come, I will remember his works which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with these things, he does not himself receive the brethren, but both for bids those who are willing, and casts them out of the church.

Galatians 4:17

They are ardently attached to you, but not honorably; in deed, they desire to exclude us, that you may be ardently attached to them.

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