1 Corinthians 5:11

But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with anyone who, although a follower of Christ in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping – no, not even to sit down to eat with such people.

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In The King James Version

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

In Context

10not, of course, meaning people of the world who are immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

12What have I to do with judging those outside the church? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the church,

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Cross References

Psalms 50:16But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth

Matthew 23:25Alas for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.

Mark 7:21for it is from within, out of the hearts of people, that there come evil thoughts – sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Luke 12:45But should that servant say to himself ‘My master is a long time coming,’ and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Luke 21:34Be on your guard or your minds will become dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and ‘that day’ will close on you suddenly like a trap.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:10-13

Advice to Shun Scandalous Professors. ( a. d. 57.) 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do… Read the whole commentary →

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