Bible verses about "excommunication" | Goodspeed

⁶ We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.

¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the congregation. And if he refuses to listen to it, treat him as a heathen or a tax-collector.

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you without bringing this teaching, do not let him come into the house or bid him good morning.

¹⁰ If a man is inclined to a sect, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him.

¹⁷ I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

⁵ I have handed the man over to Satan, for his physical destruction, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

¹⁴ If anyone refuses to obey what we have said in this letter, mark the man and do not have anything to do with him, to make him feel ashamed.

¹⁵ "But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. ¹⁶ But if he will not listen, take one or two others with you, so that everything may be supported by the testimony of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the congregation. And if he refuses to listen to it, treat him as a heathen or a tax-collector. ¹⁸ "I tell you, whatever you forbid on earth will be held in heaven to be forbidden, and whatever you permit on earth will be held in heaven to be permitted. ¹⁹ Again, I tell you, if even two of you here on earth agree about what they shall pray for, it will be given them by my Father in heaven. ²⁰ For wherever two or three are gathered as my followers, I am there among them."

¹ Immorality is actually notorious among you, and immorality of a kind unknown even among the heathen—that a man has taken his father's wife. ² And can you put on airs, instead of being overwhelmed with grief at having to expel from your number the man who has done this? ³ For my part, though I have been absent from you in person, I have been present with you in spirit, and as thus present I have already passed judgment upon the man who has done this, ⁴ and meeting with you, in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, by the authority of our Lord Jesus ⁵ I have handed the man over to Satan, for his physical destruction, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord. ⁶ Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough? ⁷ You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself. ⁸ So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth. ⁹ I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people— ¹⁰ not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether. ¹¹ What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping—with such a person you must not even eat. ¹² For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not your part to judge those who are inside the church, ¹³ and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.