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1 Corinthians 5:10

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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:

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.

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This verse in 1 Corinthians 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

For then must ye needs go out of the world - What an awful picture of the general corruption of manners does this exhibit! The Christians at Corinth could not transact the ordinary affairs of life with any others than with fornicators, covetous persons, extortioners, railers, drunkards, and idolaters, because there were none others in the place! How necessary was Christianity in that city!

This site's exposition

I wrote unto you in an epistle

on 1 Corinthians 5:9-10

Paul refers back to an earlier letter to Corinth not preserved in the canon, its command not to company with fornicators evidently misread by the church as a call to withdraw from immoral society altogether. Verse 10 corrects the misunderstanding at once, since avoiding every fornicator, covetous person, extortioner, or idolater of this world would require leaving the world entirely, a separation the gospel never asks of its people. The bench reads the distinction as foundational for Christian engagement with a fallen culture, contact with the world's sin being unavoidable while tolerance of it inside the church is not.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

But I did not mean that you should altogether refrain from conversing with heathens, though they are guilty in some of these respects. Covetous, rapacious, idolaters - Sinners against themselves, their neighbour, God.

The words behind it

21 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

16 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,22 worksEphesians 2:2in 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.10 works1 Corinthians 10:27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.6 worksJohn 17:15–16I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.3 worksJohn 15:19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.2 worksRevelation 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.2 works
The other 10 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Corinthians 1:20Where 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?2 worksPhilippians 2:15so 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 world2 worksMatthew 5:14–16You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.2 works2 Corinthians 4:4The 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.2 works1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.2 works1 John 4:5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.2 worksJohn 8:23Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.2 worksJohn 17:6I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.1 worksJohn 17:9I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours.1 works1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Revelation 12:9

    And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

    it leads to

    • Luke 10:18

      So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

    • John 12:31

      Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

    • Revelation 20:10

      And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day…

    • 1 John 5:19

      We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

  • Through

    John 15:19

    If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

    it leads to

    • 1 John 4:4–5

      You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

    • John 17:14–16

      I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

    • Ephesians 1:4–11

      For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

  • Through

    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?

    it leads to

    • Romans 1:22

      Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Corinthians

The Crucifixion — 'Christ crucified' (1 Cor 2:2) — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
The Crucifixion — 'Christ crucified' (1 Cor 2:2) — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
1 Corinthians: the study guide →Read 1 Corinthians 5 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the First Epistle to the Corinthians; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament.

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