1 Corinthians 5:9 “I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people…”

1 Corinthians 5:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

World English Bible

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

American Standard Version

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

Geneva Bible 1599

I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, that ye should not companie together with fornicatours,

Darby Translation

I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

Young's Literal Translation

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers —

Bible in Basic English

In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;

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Cross references

“not”

Ephesians 5:11 2 Thessalonians 3:14 2 Corinthians 6:14 1 Corinthians 5:2 1 Corinthians 5:7 Proverbs 9:6

Ephesians 5:11 · BSB

Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

2 Thessalonians 3:14 · BSB

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.

2 Corinthians 6:14 · BSB

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

1 Corinthians 5:2 · BSB

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

1 Corinthians 5:7 · BSB

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.

Proverbs 9:6 · BSB

Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”

Also

2 Thessalonians 3:6

2 Thessalonians 3:6 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Therefore 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.

10I 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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