What Does the Bible Say About Errant?

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Matthew 18:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 18:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

1 Timothy 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

1 Timothy 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

2 Thessalonians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

2 Corinthians 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Romans 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 5:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Proverbs 30:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.

Genesis 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”

32 Bible Verses about Errant

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 18:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 18:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 5:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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32 Bible Verses about Errant

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2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 18:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 18:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 5:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes