Bible Verses About Reproof

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.

Have I now become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in every respect grow up into him who is the head, the Messiah.

Have nothing to do with the deeds produced by darkness, but instead expose them,

But everything exposed to the light is revealed clearly for what it is,

so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the sky,

In conclusion, my brothers: rejoice in union with the Lord. It is no trouble for me to repeat what I have written you before, and for you it will be a safeguard:

but we urge you, brothers, to confront those who are lazy, your aim being to help them change, to encourage the timid, to assist the weak, and to be patient with everyone.