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, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
• 2 Th 3:14–15If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
• 1 Cor 5:9I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
• 1 Cor 5:3–5For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
• 2 Jn 1:10–11If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,
• Eph 5:11–12Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
• Eph 4:17–19This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• 3 Jn 1:9–10I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
• Ezek 11:12You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
• Rom 16:17–18Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
• 2 Cor 2:6–7This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
• Acts 15:6–7The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
• Ezra 6:21The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,
• 2 Cor 6:14–17Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
• Matt 21:31–32Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
• Matt 11:19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
• Luke 15:1Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
• 1 Tim 6:5constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
• Acts 6:1–3Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
• Luke 19:2–3There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
• Matt 5:46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
• Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
• Matt 6:7In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

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