1 Corinthians 5:10

Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral.

11But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so- called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:14"You are the light of the world. A city built on a hilltop cannot be hid;

John 15:19"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

John 17:9"I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine,

1 Corinthians 1:20Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age - where are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

2 Corinthians 4:4Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.

Philippians 2:15that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,

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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