Matthew 18:17

If the brother still refuses, the matter goes to the church, and final unrepentance leads to treating him as an outsider. Persistent, unrepentant sin results in loving exclusion.

Cross-references · 23

• 2 Th 3:6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
• 2 Th 3:14–15And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
• 1 Cor 5:9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
• 1 Cor 5:3–5For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
• 2 Jn 1:10–11If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
• Eph 5:11–12And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
• Eph 4:17–19This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• 3 Jn 1:9–10I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
• Ezek 11:12And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
• Rom 16:17–18Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
• 2 Cor 2:6–7Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
• Acts 15:6–7And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
• Ezra 6:21And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
• 2 Cor 6:14–17Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• Matt 21:31–32Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
• Matt 11:19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
• Luke 15:1Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
• 1 Tim 6:5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
• Acts 6:1–3And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
• Luke 19:2–3And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
• Matt 5:46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
• Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
• Matt 6:7But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

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