The Biblical Prescription for our relationship with the doctrinally
impure, with false teachers, and with compromisers.
(from The Reformer by the Protestant
Alliance (Sept./Oct. 2006))
Try Them
(1 John 4:1 KJV) Beloved, believe not every spirit,
but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many
false prophets are gone out into the world.
Mark Them
(Rom 16:17 KJV) Now I beseech you, brethren,
mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Rebuke Them
(Titus 1:13 KJV) This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Have No Fellowship With Them
(Eph 5:11 KJV) And have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
them.
Withdraw Thyself From Them
(2 Th 3:6 KJV) Now we command you, brethren, in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves
from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition
which he received of us.
Turn Away From Them
(2 Tim 3:5 KJV) Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn
away.
Receive Them Not
(2 John 1:10-11 KJV) If there come any unto you, and
bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your
house, neither bid him God speed: {11} For he that biddeth him God
speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Have No Company With Them
(2 Th 3:14 KJV) And if any man obey not our word by
this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him,
that he may be ashamed.
Reject Them
(Titus 3:10 KJV) A man that is an heretic after the
first and second admonition reject;
Be Separate From Them
(2 Cor 6:17 KJV) Wherefore come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing; and I will receive you,