1 Corinthians 5:11
But this is what I wrote to you, that ye commingle not, if any one is called a brother, and is a whoremonger, or avaricious, or an idol-worshipper, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with him who is such, not even to eat bread.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
12For what business have I to judge them who are without? But those within the body, judge ye,
Cross References
Matthew 23:25Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, while within they are full of rapine and wickedness.
Mark 7:21For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adultery, whoredom,
Luke 12:45But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite the servants and the maidens of his lord; and shall begin to eat and to drink and be drunk;
Luke 21:34Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be, at no time, stupefied by gluttony and ebriety and worldly care; and so that day come upon you unawares.
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 →