1 Corinthians 5:9
I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 9:6Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.
1 Corinthians 5:7Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.
2 Corinthians 6:17Wherefore, Go out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:
2 Thessalonians 3:6And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the tradition which they have received of 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 →