Bible verses about "confronting" | WPNT

¹⁵ “Now if your brother sins against you, go, confront him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have won your brother.

²⁹ Let no evil word proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification, as needed, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

¹ Brothers, if a man is actually caught in some wrongdoing, you, the spiritual ones, should restore him in a spirit of gentleness, watching out for yourself lest you also be tempted. ² Bear one another’s heavy burdens, and so fulfill the law of the Christ. ³ For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴ Let each one test his own work, and then do his ‘boasting’ only within himself, never to someone else. ⁵ For each one must carry his own normal load. ⁶ Let him who is taught the Word share all good things with him who teaches. ⁷ Do not be deceived, God does not allow Himself to be treated with contempt; because whatever a man sows, that he will also reap ⁸ —he who sows to his own flesh will reap deterioration from that flesh; he who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from that Spirit. ⁹ Let us not lose heart while doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we do not give up. ¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let us do what is good toward everyone, but especially toward those who are of the household of faith. ¹¹ See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand. ¹² Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh are pressuring you to be circumcised, but only so as not to be persecuted for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ¹⁵ Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. ¹⁶ Now as for those who conform to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God. ¹⁷ Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the brand marks of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

¹⁹ Brothers, if anyone among you should wander away from the truth, and someone should turn him back, ²⁰ let him know that the one who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will deliver a soul from death and will remove from sight a multitude of sins.

² Proclaim the Word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and exhort, with lots of patience and teaching.

¹¹ But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was blameworthy. ¹² Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision party. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews played the hypocrite with him as well, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ So when I saw that they were not walking straight according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all: “If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, why do you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

²⁵ Therefore, having put away falsehood, ‘Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,’ for we are members of one another.

¹ Brothers, if a man is actually caught in some wrongdoing, you, the spiritual ones, should restore him in a spirit of gentleness, watching out for yourself lest you also be tempted.

¹⁵ “Now if your brother sins against you, go, confront him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have won your brother. ¹⁶ But should he not hear, take along with you one or two more, so that every word may be established by the mouth of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷ And should he refuse to hear them, tell it to the congregation. But should he refuse to hear even the congregation, let him be to you just like the heathen and the tax collector.