1 Corinthians 5:9
As I have written to you in an epistle: “Do not associate with fornicators,”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 9:6Leave behind childishness. And live and walk by the ways of prudence.”
1 Corinthians 5:7Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated.
2 Corinthians 6:17Because of this, you must depart from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is unclean.
2 Thessalonians 3:6But we strongly caution you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to draw yourselves away from every brother who is walking in disorder and not according to the tradition that they received from us.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:8-9
Exhortation to Christian Purity. ( a. d. 57.) 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Here the apostle exhorts them to purity, by purging out the old leaven. In this observe, I. The advice itself, addressed either, 1. To the church in general; and so purging… Read the whole commentary →