diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2ff9c18..ba0a0f3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 All notable changes in **salt-lint** are documented below.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Fixed
+- Ensure all excluded paths from both the CLI and configuration are passed to the runner ([#231](https://github.com/warpnet/salt-lint/pull/231)).
+
 ## [0.5.0] (2021-01-17)
 ### Added
 - Rule 213 to recommend using cmd.run together with onchanges ([#207](https://github.com/warpnet/salt-lint/pull/207)).
diff --git a/saltlint/linter/runner.py b/saltlint/linter/runner.py
index 752d0e6..5f62e4a 100644
--- a/saltlint/linter/runner.py
+++ b/saltlint/linter/runner.py
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ class Runner(object):
             # These will be (potentially) relative paths
             paths = [path.strip() for path in exclude_paths]
             self.exclude_paths = paths + [os.path.abspath(path) for path in paths]
-        self.exclude_paths = []
+        else:
+            self.exclude_paths = []
 
     def is_excluded(self, file_path):
         # Any will short-circuit as soon as something returns True, but will

diff --git a/tests/unit/TestRunner.py b/tests/unit/TestRunner.py
index b1e8e02..0d0ceb2 100644
--- a/tests/unit/TestRunner.py
+++ b/tests/unit/TestRunner.py
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 import unittest
 
 from saltlint.cli import run
+from saltlint.config import Configuration
+from saltlint.linter.runner import Runner
+
 
 class TestRunner(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -18,3 +21,16 @@ class TestRunner(unittest.TestCase):
         # expected.
         args = ['tests/test-extension-success.sls']
         self.assertEqual(run(args), 0)
+
+    def test_runner_exclude_paths(self):
+        """
+        Check if all the excluded paths from the configuration are passed to
+        the runner.
+        """
+        exclude_paths = ['first.sls', 'second.sls']
+        config = Configuration(dict(exclude_paths=exclude_paths))
+        runner = Runner([], 'init.sls', config)
+
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any(path in runner.exclude_paths for path in exclude_paths)
+        )

--exclude does not seem to work since 0.5.0
In my CI I have :
``` bash
find . -name "*.jinja" -o -name "*sls" | xargs --no-run-if-empty salt-lint -x 204,205 --exclude ./common_syslog-ng.sls
```
So I was not notified on lint errors for `common_syslog-ng.sls` file, but since 0.5.0 version I get errors from this file.
If I set image tag to `0.4.2`, normal behaviour is back.


tests/unit/TestRunner.py::TestRunner::test_runner_exclude_paths
tests/unit/TestRunner.py::TestRunner::test_runner_with_matches tests/unit/TestRunner.py::TestRunner::test_runner_without_matches