Bible Verses About Reproof

For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

I say this to move you to shame. What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.

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

When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s supper:

for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned.

So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.