27 Bible Verses about Excommunication

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Matthew 18:15-18

But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother. But if he should not hear, take with thee one or two besides, so that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he is heedless of them, speak to the church. But if he is also heedless of the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the tax collector.read more.
Truly I say to you, however many things ye may bind on the earth will be things that are bound in heaven, and however many things ye may loose on the earth will be things that that are loosed in heaven.

Matthew 16:19

And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever thou may bind on earth will be what is bound in the heavens, and whatever thou may loose on the earth will be what is loosed in the heavens.

1 Corinthians 5:1-6

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you. For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.read more.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

1 Timothy 1:20

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, so that they may be disciplined not to blaspheme.

1 Corinthians 5:11-13

But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind. For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside? But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

But if any man has caused sadness, he has not caused me sadness, but in part (that I may not bear down) you all. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment by the many, so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.read more.
Therefore I beseech you to affirm love for him. For I also wrote for this, so that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. But to whom ye forgive anything, I too. For I also, whom I have forgiven (if anything), I have forgiven because of you in the presence of Christ, so that we may not be exploited by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his methods.

Leviticus 18:29

For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

Numbers 15:30

But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemes LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 19:20

But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled upon him; he is

Matthew 18:15-17

But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother. But if he should not hear, take with thee one or two besides, so that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he is heedless of them, speak to the church. But if he is also heedless of the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the tax collector.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators, and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world. But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.read more.
For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside? But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

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

Titus 3:9-11

But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain. Shun a factious man after a first and second admonition, knowing that such a man is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

John 9:22

His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man confessed him as Christ, he should become excommunicated from the synagogue.

John 12:42

Yet, nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess, so that they would not become excommunicated from the synagogue,

Luke 6:22

Blessed are ye, when men will hate you, and when they will exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of man.

John 9:34

They answered and said to him, Thou were born entirely in sins, and thou teach us. And they cast him outside.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

Ezra 10:8

And that whoever did not come within three days, according to the counsel of the rulers and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

Psalm 36:11

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of sinners drive me away.

1 Kings 22:46

And he put away out of the land the remnant of the sodomites, who remained in the days of his father Asa.

1 Corinthians 5:2

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

3 John 1:10

Because of this, if I come, I will remember his works that he does, prating against us with evil words. And not being satisfied in these, he himself does not even accept the brothers, and he forbids those who would, and expels them

Galatians 4:17

They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.

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Exodus 30:33

Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.

John 9:34

They answered and said to him, Thou were born entirely in sins, and thou teach us. And they cast him outside.

Exodus 12:15

Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Leviticus 7:20

but the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, that pertain to LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 17:9

and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it to LORD, that man shall be cut off from his people.

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