1 Corinthians 5:11

1 Corinthians 5:11

Immorality Must Be Judged

9 I wrote to you in my epistle ^anot to keep company with sexually immoral people.

10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go ^aout of the world.

11 But now I have written to you not to keep company ^awith anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—^bnot even to eat with such a person.

12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore ^a“put away from yourselves the evil person.”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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But now I write unto you (nun de egraya umin). This is the epistolary aorist referring to this same epistle and not to a previous one as in verse I Corinthians 5:9. As it is (when you read it) I did write unto you.

If any man that is named a brother be (ean tiv adelfov onomazomenov h). Condition of the third class, a supposable case.

Or a reviler or a drunkard (h loidorov h mequsov). Loidorov occurs in Euripides as an adjective and in later writings. In N.T. only here and I Corinthians 6:10. For the verb see I Corinthians 4:12. Mequsov is an old Greek word for women and even men (cf. paroinov, of men, I Timothy 3:3). In N.T. only here and I Corinthians 6:10. Cf. Romans 13:13. Deissmann (Light from the Ancient East, p. 316) gives a list of virtues and vices on counters for Roman games that correspond remarkably with Paul's list of vices here and in I Corinthians 6:10. Chrysostom noted that people in his day complained of the bad company given by Paul for revilers and drunkards as being men with more "respectable" vices!

With such a one, no, not to eat (tw toioutw mhde sunesqiein). Associative instrumental case of toioutw after sunesqiein, "not even to eat with such a one." Social contacts with such "a brother" are forbidden

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Immorality Must Be Judged