21 Bible Verses about Excommunication

"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. 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. 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.read more.
"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.

I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and 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."

Immorality is actually notorious among you, and immorality of a kind unknown even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife. 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? 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,read more.
and meeting with you, in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, by the authority of our Lord Jesus 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. Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough?

like Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I turned over to Satan, to be taught not to blaspheme.

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??ith such a person you must not even eat. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not your part to judge those who are inside the church, and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

But if anyone has hurt anybody's feelings, it is not so much mine, as yours, or at least those of some of you, not to be too hard upon you all. For that individual, this censure by the majority of you is punishment enough, and so you must now turn around and forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by his remorse.read more.
So I beg you to restore him to his place in your affections. For that is why I wrote you??o find out how you would stand the test, and see if you would obey me absolutely. When you forgive a man, I forgive him too. For anything I had to forgive has been forgiven on your account, and as in the very presence of Christ, to keep Satan from getting the better of us. For we know what he is after.

"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. 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. 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.

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.

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. 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??ith such a person you must not even eat. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not your part to judge those who are inside the church,read more.
and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

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.

But have nothing to do with foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the Law, for they are profitless and futile. If a man is inclined to a sect, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him. You may be sure that a man of that kind is corrupt and sinful, for his own actions condemn him.

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

"Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you and spurn the name you bear as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

They answered, "You were born in utter sin, and are you trying to teach us?" So they excluded him from the synagogue.

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind

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?

and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

So if I come, I will bring up the things that he is doing, and how he is maliciously accusing me. Not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, and he is interfering with those who want to do so, and has them put out of the church.

These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them.