Excommunication is a punishment for the obstinate.          And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no  We must have no familiarity or fellowship with the one who has been excommunicated.  company with him,  The end of the excommunication is not the destruction, but the salvation of the sinner, that at least through shame he may be driven to repentance.  that he may be ashamed.