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class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/5.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/1_corinthians/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with the sexually immoral,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_corinthians/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_corinthians/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_corinthians/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_corinthians/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />I wrote you in my [previous] letter not to associate with [sexually] immoral people—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_corinthians/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/1_corinthians/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />In my other letter I told you not to have anything to do with immoral people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_corinthians/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_corinthians/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />In my letter to you I told you not to associate with people who continue to commit sexual sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/1_corinthians/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />In the letter that I wrote you I told you not to associate with immoral people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_corinthians/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />I wrote to you in my letter to stop associating with people who are sexually immoral— <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_corinthians/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_corinthians/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_corinthians/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I have written to you in this epistle, not to associate with persons guilty of lewdness:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators;<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_corinthians/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_corinthians/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />I wrote to you in the letter, not to keep company with whoremongers—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with the sexually immoral,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_corinthians/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers -- <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_corinthians/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_corinthians/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />As I have written to you in an epistle: “Do not associate with fornicators,”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_corinthians/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_corinthians/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral persons—<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_corinthians/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />I wrote to you in an epistle not to associate with immoral persons.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_corinthians/5.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />I have written to you in a letter not to mix with fornicators.<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/1_corinthians/5.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/1_corinthians/5.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />I have written unto you in a letter to have no fellowship with fornicators;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/1_corinthians/5.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/1_corinthians/5.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />When I formerly writ to you, not to keep company with the vicious:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/1_corinthians/5.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/1_corinthians/5.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_corinthians/5-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-wZWoK_LZU?start=910" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/5.htm">Expel the Immoral Brother</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8</span>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. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/1125.htm" title="1125: Egrapsa (V-AIA-1S) -- A primary verb; to grave, especially to write; figuratively, to describe.">I wrote</a> <a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymin (PPro-D2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">you</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tē (Art-DFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">my</a> <a href="/greek/1992.htm" title="1992: epistolē (N-DFS) -- A letter, dispatch, epistle, message. From epistello; a written message.">letter</a> <a href="/greek/3361.htm" title="3361: mē (Adv) -- Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.">not</a> <a href="/greek/4874.htm" title="4874: synanamignysthai (V-PNM) -- From sun and a compound of ana and mignumi; to mix up together, i.e. associate with.">to associate with</a> <a href="/greek/4205.htm" title="4205: pornois (N-DMP) -- A fornicator, man who prostitutes himself. From pernemi; a prostitute, i.e. a debauchee.">sexually immoral people.</a> </span> <span class="reftext">10</span>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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">2 Corinthians 6:14-17</a></span><br />Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/5-11.htm">Ephesians 5:11</a></span><br />Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_thessalonians/3-6.htm">2 Thessalonians 3:6</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_thessalonians/3-14.htm">2 Thessalonians 3:14-15</a></span><br />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. / Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/16-17.htm">Romans 16:17</a></span><br />Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-33.htm">1 Corinthians 15:33</a></span><br />Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/3-5.htm">2 Timothy 3:5</a></span><br />having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/18-15.htm">Matthew 18:15-17</a></span><br />If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. / But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ / If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_john/1-10.htm">2 John 1:10-11</a></span><br />If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him. / Whoever greets such a person shares in his evil deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/6-1.htm">Galatians 6:1</a></span><br />Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/6-5.htm">1 Timothy 6:5</a></span><br />and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/titus/3-10.htm">Titus 3:10-11</a></span><br />Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, / knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/13-20.htm">Proverbs 13:20</a></span><br />He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/1-1.htm">Psalm 1:1</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/4-14.htm">Proverbs 4:14-15</a></span><br />Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. / Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">I wrote to you in an letter not to company with fornicators:</p><p class="hdg">not.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/5-2.htm">1 Corinthians 5:2,7</a></b></br> And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/1-1.htm">Psalm 1:1,2</a></b></br> Blessed <i>is</i> 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… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/9-6.htm">Proverbs 9:6</a></b></br> Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/romans/12-16.htm">Associate</a> <a href="/romans/15-32.htm">Company</a> <a href="/romans/13-14.htm">Desires</a> <a href="/romans/16-22.htm">Epistle</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-5.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/revelation/22-15.htm">Fornicators</a> <a href="/romans/3-19.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/luke/7-40.htm">Immoral</a> <a href="/romans/16-22.htm">Letter</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-15.htm">Mix</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-2.htm">Persons</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">Sexual</a> <a href="/matthew/1-25.htm">Sexually</a> <a href="/romans/8-1.htm">Sinners</a> <a href="/2_kings/23-7.htm">Whoremongers</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-14.htm">Write</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-6.htm">Written</a> <a href="/romans/16-22.htm">Wrote</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">Associate</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">Company</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">Desires</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/3-2.htm">Epistle</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-10.htm">Fornicators</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">Immoral</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-1.htm">Letter</a> <a href="/revelation/18-6.htm">Mix</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-10.htm">Persons</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-10.htm">Sexual</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">Sexually</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-10.htm">Sinners</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-10.htm">Whoremongers</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-15.htm">Write</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">Written</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">Wrote</a><div class="vheading2">1 Corinthians 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">The sexual immorality person,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">is cause rather of shame unto them than of rejoicing.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">The old leaven is to be purged out.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-10.htm">Heinous offenders are to be shamed and avoided.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/1_corinthians/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/1_corinthians/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/1_corinthians/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>I wrote you in my letter</b><br>This phrase indicates that Paul had previously communicated with the Corinthian church through another letter, which is not part of the New Testament canon. This suggests that Paul's correspondence with the Corinthians was ongoing and that he was addressing specific issues within the church. The existence of this earlier letter highlights the importance of understanding the context and the ongoing relationship between Paul and the Corinthian believers. It also underscores the pastoral care Paul had for the churches he established, as he continued to guide them even from a distance.<p><b>not to associate</b><br>The term "associate" implies a level of fellowship or close relationship. In the context of the early church, association would have included sharing meals, worship, and communal activities. The instruction not to associate is a call for the church to maintain purity and holiness, reflecting the call to be separate from sin. This echoes Old Testament principles where Israel was instructed to be distinct from the surrounding nations (<a href="/leviticus/20-26.htm">Leviticus 20:26</a>). The idea is not to completely isolate from the world but to avoid intimate connections that could lead to moral compromise.<p><b>with sexually immoral people</b><br>Sexual immorality, or "porneia" in Greek, encompasses a range of illicit sexual behaviors outside the bounds of biblical marriage. In the Greco-Roman world, sexual immorality was rampant and often intertwined with pagan religious practices. The Corinthian church, situated in a city known for its moral laxity, faced significant challenges in maintaining sexual purity. This instruction aligns with the broader biblical teaching on sexual ethics, as seen in passages like <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:3-5</a> and <a href="/ephesians/5-3.htm">Ephesians 5:3</a>. It also reflects the call to holiness found throughout Scripture, where believers are urged to live lives that honor God, as seen in <a href="/1_peter/1-15.htm">1 Peter 1:15-16</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a></b><br>The author of the letter, addressing the church in Corinth. Paul is a key figure in the early Christian church, known for his missionary journeys and epistles.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_church_in_corinth.htm">The Church in Corinth</a></b><br>A Christian community in the city of Corinth, known for its diverse population and moral challenges. The church faced issues of immorality and division, which Paul addresses in his letters.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/sexually_immoral_people.htm">Sexually Immoral People</a></b><br>Refers to individuals engaging in sexual practices outside the boundaries set by Christian teachings. In the context of Corinth, this included a range of behaviors prevalent in the city.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/p/paul's_previous_letter.htm">Paul's Previous Letter</a></b><br>An earlier correspondence from Paul to the Corinthians, which is not part of the canonical New Testament but is referenced here.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/c/corinth.htm">Corinth</a></b><br>A major city in ancient Greece, known for its wealth, commerce, and moral laxity. The cultural environment posed challenges for the early Christians living there.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_context.htm">Understanding Context</a></b><br>Recognize that Paul's instruction is specific to the church community and aims to maintain the integrity and witness of the church.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/m/moral_purity.htm">Moral Purity</a></b><br>Christians are called to uphold moral standards that reflect their faith and commitment to Christ, avoiding behaviors that contradict biblical teachings.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_accountability.htm">Community Accountability</a></b><br>The church is a community where members hold each other accountable, encouraging one another to live according to God's standards.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/separation_from_sin.htm">Separation from Sin</a></b><br>While believers are in the world, they are not to adopt its sinful practices. This separation is not about isolation but about maintaining a distinct Christian identity.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/restoration_and_redemption.htm">Restoration and Redemption</a></b><br>The goal of addressing immorality within the church is not merely punitive but redemptive, aiming to restore individuals to right relationship with God and the community.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_corinthians_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Corinthians 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_paul's_and_jesus'_views.htm">How do we reconcile Paul’s instructions in 1 Corinthians 5:9–11 about disassociating with sinners with Jesus’ example of befriending them? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/fate_of_righteous_and_wicked.htm">How many letters were sent to the Corinthians?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_christians_befriend_non-christians.htm">Can Christians befriend non-Christians?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_shunning_align_with_reconciliation.htm">2 Thessalonians 3:14 – How is shunning disobedient individuals consistent with the broader New Testament call to restore and reconcile sinners? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_corinthians/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) <span class= "bld">I wrote unto you in an epistle.</span>--These words have given rise to some controversy as to whether the Apostle here refers to some former Epistle addressed to the Corinthian Church, and which has not been preserved, or whether the reference is not to this Epistle itself. It has been suggested by some who adopt the latter view that these words may have been added as an interpolation after the completion of the Epistle, and be intended to intensify the remarks made by the Apostle on this subject in <a href="/context/1_corinthians/5-6.htm" title="Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?">1Corinthians 5:6-8</a>; <a href="/context/1_corinthians/6-9.htm" title="Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,">1Corinthians 6:9-20</a>. Such an interpretation, however, seems rather strained. It is more natural to suppose that the reference is to an Epistle written to the Corinthians, probably from Ephesus, after a visit paid to Corinth of which we have no record, for in <a href="/2_corinthians/12-14.htm" title="Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.">2Corinthians 12:14</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/13-1.htm" title="This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.">2Corinthians 13:1</a>, we read of a third visit being contemplated, whereas only one previous one is recorded. (See also <span class= "ital">Introduction.</span>) The condition of the Church which caused the Apostle that "heaviness," which he connects with this visit in <a href="/2_corinthians/2-1.htm" title="But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.">2Corinthians 2:1</a>, would naturally have given rise to an Epistle containing the kind of direction here referred to.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_corinthians/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 9-13.</span> - <span class="accented">Correction of a mistaken inference which they had deduced from a former letter of St. Paul's.</span> <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">In an Epistle;</span> rather, <span class="accented">in</span> the <span class="accented">Epistle</span>; <span class="accented">in</span> some former letter to the Church, which is no longer extant (comp. <a href="/2_corinthians/10-10.htm">2 Corinthians 10:10</a>). The attempt to get rid of so plain a statement, in the supposed interests of some superstitious notion that every line which an apostle wrote to a Church must necessarily have been inspired and infallible, is at once unscriptural and grossly superstitious. The notion that "the Epistle" intended is <span class="accented">this</span> Epistle is an absurdity invented in the interests of the same fiction. The only hypothesis which could give the least plausibility to such a view is that which makes this paragraph a postscript or marginal addition after the letter was finished; but there is little or nothing in favour of such a view. <span class="cmt_word">Not to company with.</span> The Greek word is rather stronger: <span class="accented">not to be mingled up among</span> (comp. <a href="/2_thessalonians/3-14.htm">2 Thessalonians 3:14</a>). The spirit of the injunction is repeated in <a href="/ephesians/5-11.htm">Ephesians 5:11</a>, "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_corinthians/5-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">I wrote</span><br /><span class="grk">Ἔγραψα</span> <span class="translit">(Egrapsa)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1125.htm">Strong's 1125: </a> </span><span class="str2">A primary verb; to 'grave', especially to write; figuratively, to describe.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you</span><br /><span class="grk">ὑμῖν</span> <span class="translit">(hymin)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> </span><span class="str2">You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐν</span> <span class="translit">(en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> </span><span class="str2">In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[my]</span><br /><span class="grk">τῇ</span> <span class="translit">(tē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article - Dative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">letter</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐπιστολῇ</span> <span class="translit">(epistolē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1992.htm">Strong's 1992: </a> </span><span class="str2">A letter, dispatch, epistle, message. From epistello; a written message.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">not</span><br /><span class="grk">μὴ</span> <span class="translit">(mē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3361.htm">Strong's 3361: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to associate with</span><br /><span class="grk">συναναμίγνυσθαι</span> <span class="translit">(synanamignysthai)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Infinitive Middle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4874.htm">Strong's 4874: </a> </span><span class="str2">From sun and a compound of ana and mignumi; to mix up together, i.e. associate with.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">sexually immoral [people].</span><br /><span class="grk">πόρνοις</span> <span class="translit">(pornois)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4205.htm">Strong's 4205: </a> </span><span class="str2">A fornicator, man who prostitutes himself. 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