Bible Verses About Reproof: Paul

Nevertheless, brothers, I call on you in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to agree, all of you, in what you say, and not to let yourselves remain split into factions but be restored to having a common mind and a common purpose.

For some of Chloe’s people have made it known to me, my brothers, that there are quarrels among you.

I say this because one of you says, “I follow Sha’ul”; another says, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Kefa”; while still another says, “I follow the Messiah!”

Has the Messiah been split in pieces? Was it Sha’ul who was put to death on a stake for you? Were you immersed into the name of Sha’ul?

It is actually being reported that there is sexual sin among you, and it is sexual sin of a kind that is condemned even by pagans — a man is living with his stepmother!

And you stay proud? Shouldn’t you rather have felt some sadness that would have led you to remove from your company the man who has done this thing?

For I myself, even though I am absent physically, am with you spiritually; and I have already judged the man who has done this as if I were present.

In the name of the Lord Yeshua, when you are assembled, with me present spiritually and the power of our Lord Yeshua among us,

hand over such a person to the Adversary for his old nature to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

How dare one of you with a complaint against another go to court before pagan judges and not before God’s people?

Don’t you know that God’s people are going to judge the universe? If you are going to judge the universe, are you incompetent to judge these minor matters?

Don’t you know that we will judge angels, not to mention affairs of everyday life?

So if you require judgments about matters of everyday life, why do you put them in front of men who have no standing in the Messianic Community?

I say, shame on you! Can it be that there isn’t one person among you wise enough to be able to settle a dispute between brothers?

Instead, a brother brings a lawsuit against another brother, and that before unbelievers!

Actually, if you are bringing lawsuits against each other, it is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat; and you do it to your own brothers!

But in giving you this next instruction I do not praise you, because when you meet together it does more harm than good!

For, in the first place, I hear that when you gather together as a congregation you divide up into cliques; and to a degree I believe it

(granted that there must be some divisions among you in order to show who are the ones in the right).

Thus, when you gather together, it is not to eat a meal of the Lord;

because as you eat your meal, each one goes ahead on his own; so that one stays hungry while another is already drunk!

Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or are you trying to show your contempt for God’s Messianic community and embarrass those who are poor? What am I supposed to say to you? Am I supposed to praise you? Well, for this I don’t praise you!

Furthermore, when Kefa came to Antioch, I opposed him publicly, because he was clearly in the wrong.