excommunication

¹Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father. ²And yet you are inflated, and you have not instead been grieved, so that he who has done this thing would be taken away from your midst. ³Certainly, though absent in body, I am present in spirit. Thus, I have already judged, as if I were present, him who has done this. ⁴In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you have been gathered together with my spirit, in the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵to hand over such a one as this to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁶It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?

¹⁰Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,

⁵to hand over such a one as this to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷And if he will not listen to them, tell the Church. But if he will not listen to the Church, let him be to you like the pagan and the tax collector.

¹¹But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food.

¹⁷But I beg you, brothers, to take note of those who cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and to turn away from them.

²⁰Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

⁵But if anyone has brought sorrow, he has not sorrowed me. Yet, for my part, this is so that I might not burden all of you. ⁶Let this rebuke be sufficient for someone like this, for it has been brought by many. ⁷So then, to the contrary, you should be more forgiving and consoling, lest perhaps someone like this may be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow. ⁸Because of this, I beg you to confirm your charity toward him. ⁹It was for this reason, also, that I wrote, so that I might know, by testing you, whether you would be obedient in all things. ¹⁰But anyone whom you have forgiven of anything, I also forgive. And then, too, anyone I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it was done in the person of Christ for your sakes,

¹⁴But if anyone does not obey our word by this epistle, take note of him and do not keep company with him, so that he may be ashamed.

¹⁵But if your brother has sinned against you, go and correct him, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have regained your brother.

¹⁹And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound, even in heaven. And whatever you shall release on earth shall be released, even in heaven.”

¹⁵But if your brother has sinned against you, go and correct him, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have regained your brother. ¹⁶But if he will not listen you, invite with you one or two more, so that every word may stand by the mouth of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷And if he will not listen to them, tell the Church. But if he will not listen to the Church, let him be to you like the pagan and the tax collector. ¹⁸Amen I say to you, whatever you will have bound on earth, shall be bound also in heaven, and whatever you will have released on earth, shall be released also in heaven. ¹⁹Again I say to you, that if two of those among you have agreed on earth, about anything whatsoever that they have requested, it shall be done for them by my Father, who is in heaven. ²⁰For wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I, in their midst.”

¹Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father.

¹⁰If anyone comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not be willing to receive him into the house, and do not speak a greeting to him.

⁶But we strongly caution you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to draw yourselves away from every brother who is walking in disorder and not according to the tradition that they received from us.