1 Corinthians 5:9

Purity Fellowship and the church

⁷ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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.

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
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
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2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
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2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
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2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
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Proverbs 9:6
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
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1 Corinthians 5:2
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
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1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
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Psalms 1:1–2
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
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