1 Corinthians 5:10
but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then go out of the world.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
9I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers:
Cross References
Matthew 5:14Ye are the light of the world: a city, that is situated on a hill, cannot be hid.
John 15:19If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 17:9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom Thou hast given me, for they are thine.
1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of the age? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
2 Corinthians 4:4among whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, doth not shine unto them:
Philippians 2:15that ye may be blameless and inoffensive, the children of God without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as lights in the 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 →