These verses instruct the Lord’s authorized servants concerning how transgressors should be dealt with in the kingdom of God. Unworthiness that may or may not result in formal church discipline (i.e., probation, disfellowshipping, or excommunication) does not necessitate being “cast out” of the congregation. The Lord commands that priesthood leaders and members should extend greater concern, love, and service to the transgressors, pray for them more fervently, and minister to them patiently, “for ye know not but what they will return and repent.”