1 Corinthians 5:10
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.
Yet {G2532} not {G3756} altogether {G3843} with the fornicators {G4205} of this {G5127} world {G2889}, or {G2228} with the covetous {G4123}, or {G2228} extortioners {G727}, or {G2228} with idolaters {G1496}; for {G1893} then {G686} must ye needs {G3784} go {G1831} out of {G1537} the world {G2889}.
I didn’t mean the sexually immoral people outside your community, or the greedy, or the thieves or the idol-worshippers — for then you would have to leave the world altogether!
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.
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:
Cross-References
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1 Corinthians 10:27 (5 votes)
If any of them that believe not bid you [to a feast], and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. -
John 17:15 (3 votes)
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. -
John 17:16 (3 votes)
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. -
John 8:23 (2 votes)
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. -
Revelation 12:9 (2 votes)
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. -
1 Corinthians 1:20 (2 votes)
Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? -
1 John 5:19 (2 votes)
[And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
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