Epistle
1 Cor 5.9-6.11
Read in contextBrethren,
5:9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
5:10Yet 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.
5:11But 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.
5:12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
5:13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
6:1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
6:2Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
6:3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
6:4If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
6:5I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
6:6But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
6:7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded?
6:8Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
6:9Know ye 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,
6:10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
6:11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.