Quotes About Discipline

And you are proud! Shouldnít you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.

Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.

Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lordís Supper you eat.

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.

But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.

The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.

And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.

This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

I already warned you the second time I was with you. So now in my absence I warn those who sinned earlier and everyone else: If I return, I will not spare anyone,

When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned.