1 Corinthians 5:9

Purity Fellowship and the church

⁷ Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

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.

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

¹⁰ 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.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
KJV: I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
WEB: I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
ASV: I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;
DARBY: I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;
BLB: I wrote to you⁺ in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral [people],

ÅB: Jeg skrev til dere i mitt brev at dere ikke skulle ha omgang med horkarler -
OTB: I mitt forrige brev rådet jeg dere til ikke å omgås dem som er seksuelt umoralske;
B1930: Jeg skrev til eder i mitt brev at I ikke skulde ha omgang med horkarler -

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
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2 Thessalonians 3:14
Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
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2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.
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2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
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Proverbs 9:6
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
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1 Corinthians 5:2
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
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1 Corinthians 5:7
Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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Psalms 1:1–2
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
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