Bible Verses About Heretics And Church Discipline

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

Direct Bible command to reject a heretic after warning.

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Admonish him as a brother, not as an enemy.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Direct Bible command to avoid divisive teachers.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Direct command to repent and be zealous.

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Mentions restoration to repentance after falling away.

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

God disciplines for our good.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

Direct call to repent and turn again.

Now 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.

Withdraw from disorderly brother.

For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

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And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Commands believers to take note and avoid the disobedient.

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Commands church-level exclusion for stubborn refusal.

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Calls for public rebuke of persistent sinners.

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

Different doctrine and rebuke of contradictors.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Esau sought repentance with tears but was rejected.

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

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But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

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Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

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Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

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Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

Bishops should rebuke those who contradict sound doctrine.

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

Says those who leave Christ's doctrine do not have God.

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.

Nicolaitans as hated false doctrine.

Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

Church discipline against one who does not receive the brethren.

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Calls everyone to repent or perish.

But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

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Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

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And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.

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Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

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Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

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But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

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Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Warns that false teachers draw disciples away.

As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

Orders leaders not to teach different doctrine.

Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Calls sinners to repent before judgment.

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

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But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

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