Bible Verses About Excommunication
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for excommunication, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,496 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 5:1-13. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Excommunication
1 Corinthians 5:1-13260 votes
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
Titus 3:10259 votes
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
1 Corinthians 5:5246 votes
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Matthew 18:17216 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 5:11189 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1 Timothy 1:20184 votes
Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Romans 16:17183 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
2 Corinthians 2:5-11180 votes
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
2 Thessalonians 3:14175 votes
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.
Matthew 18:15169 votes
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Matthew 16:19164 votes
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Matthew 18:15-20160 votes
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
1 Corinthians 5:1155 votes
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
2 Thessalonians 3:6150 votes
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.
2 John 1:10150 votes
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
1 Corinthians 5:13129 votes
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
John 12:42114 votes
Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
3 John 1:9-10112 votes
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
Matthew 18:15-18111 votes
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
1 Corinthians 5:7111 votes
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1 Corinthians 5:4109 votes
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Thessalonians 3:14-15109 votes
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.
Luke 6:22107 votes
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
Matthew 18:15-17103 votes
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Leviticus 17:494 votes
And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
What does the Bible say about excommunication?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 on the subject of excommunication. Across 8,496 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Titus 3:10, 1 Corinthians 5:5, Matthew 18:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.