1 Corinthians 5:10

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

11 But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

12 What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
KJV
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.
WEB
yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world.
ASV
not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:
DARBY
not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since [then] ye should go out of the world.
BLB
not altogether with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the coveters and swindlers, or idolaters—since then you⁺ would need to go out from the world.
ÅB
jeg mente ikke i almindelighet horkarlene i denne verden eller de havesyke og røverne eller avgudsdyrkerne, ellers måtte dere jo gå ut av verden;
OTB
Jeg mente ikke i det hele tatt de seksuelt umoralske menneskene i denne verden, eller de grådige og svindlere, eller avgudsdyrkere, for da måtte dere forlate verden.
B1930
jeg mente ikke i almindelighet horkarlene i denne verden eller de havesyke og røverne eller avgudsdyrkerne, ellers måtte I jo gå ut av verden;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 10:27

    If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

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  • John 17:15–16

    I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

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  • John 8:23

    Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

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  • 2 Corinthians 4:4

    The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

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  • 1 Corinthians 1:20

    Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

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  • Ephesians 2:2

    in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

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  • Philippians 2:15

    so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

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  • 1 John 4:5

    They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

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