Church Discipline

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! -- — read the full passage →

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof <FI>is<Fi> brutish.

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed, — read the full passage →

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it--it doth yield.

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place--if thou mayest not reform;

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--ye being gathered together, also my spirit--with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, — read the full passage →

And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all; — read the full passage →

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance, — read the full passage →

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting, — read the full passage →

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us, — read the full passage →

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed--Christ,

Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted; — read the full passage →

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well, — read the full passage →

sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that <FI>is<Fi> by the more part, — read the full passage →

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son; — read the full passage →

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--ye being gathered together, also my spirit--with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go--first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift. — read the full passage →

as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive--anathema let him be!

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

And the sons of Israel commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, taketh of the devoted thing, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against the sons of Israel. — read the full passage →

sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that <FI>is<Fi> by the more part,

Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

`But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom; — read the full passage →

because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee, — read the full passage →

for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?

and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord, — read the full passage →

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you--anathema let him be! — read the full passage →

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

A traveller to life <FI>is<Fi> he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

A wise son--the instruction of a father, And a scorner--he hath not heard rebuke.

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers-- — read the full passage →

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus, — read the full passage →

Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses. — read the full passage →

and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you, — read the full passage →

`One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.

so that, on the contrary, <FI>it is<Fi> rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers--

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge? — read the full passage →

and as an enemy count <FI>him<Fi> not, but admonish ye <FI>him<Fi> as a brother;