1 Corinthians 5:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

Converse with the ungodly. I. IN OUR ORDINARY LIFE WE MUST ASSOCIATE MORE OR LESS WITH THE IMPURE AND GODLESS . Our legitimate business leads us among such, our duties as citizens and subjects as well. If we kept ourselves entirely apart, we should have "to go out of the world." 1. Christianity is not designed to drive us "out of the world." We are to live among men righteously. Here we have an argument against monasticism, which is "going out of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

The intercourse of Christians with the world. In a former letter, now lost, Paul had given the Corinthians instructions not to mix themselves up with persons of evil character. These instructions had been misunderstood, and the apostle now explains what his meaning was. I. CHRISTIANS ARE NOT TO AVOID NECESSARY INTERCOURSE WITH THE WORLD , Society at Corinth was corrupt. Every law in both tables was habitually transgressed, and to avoid meeting such transgressors was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

The Christian law of association with evil. Two points require to be illustrated and enforced. I. COMMON , EVERY DAY LIFE ASSOCIATIONS WITH EVIL HAVE TO BE MAINTAINED , in Yet in all these the earnest Christian need never find it difficult to make a firm witness for truth, righteousness, and charity. II. SPECIAL RELATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP WITH EVIL WE MAY NOT MAKE . We may not read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote unto you - I have written ἔγραψα egrapsa. This word may either refer to this Epistle, or to some former epistle. It simply denotes that he had written to them, but whether in the former part of this, or in some former epistle which is now lost, cannot be determined by the use of this word.In an epistle - ἐν τῇ ἐπιστολῇ en tē epistolē. There has been considerable diversity of opinion in regard to this expression. A large number of commentators as Chrysostom, Theodoret,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 5:9-11

1 Corinthians 5:9-11. I wrote to you in a former epistle Doubtless both Paul and the other apostles wrote many things which are not extant now; not to company Μη συναναμιγνυσθαι , not to be intermixed, not to associate with fornicators, and such scandalous sinners; not to contract any intimacy or acquaintance with them, more than is absolutely necessary. Yet not altogether I did not mean thereby that ye should altogether refrain from conversing with heathen, who are guilty of that... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:1-13

5:1-6:20 MORAL FAULTS IN THE CHURCHAdulterous living (5:1-13)Paul now turns to the second difficulty that had been reported. In this case the sin was one that would hardly be found even among the pagan Greeks. A man was living in adultery with his father’s wife, probably a minor wife or the wife of a remarriage. Yet the Christians did nothing about the shameful situation. They thought they were so advanced in their Christian experience that there was no need to restrict the freedom of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 5:9

an = the, i.e. the present one. company . Literally mix together. Greek. sunanamignumi. Elsewhere, 1 Corinthians 5:11 and 2 Thessalonians 3:14 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.In my epistle ... This most probably refers to another epistle Paul had written to the Corinthians, but which was lost; and, since they misunderstood it, perhaps it was lost providentially. Skilled efforts to make this a reference to previous passages in this same epistle are... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:9

1 Corinthians 5:9. I wrote, &c.— I have written unto you in an [this] Epistle. Instead of fornicators, in this and the following verses, some very properly render the original word πορνοι, by lewd persons, as it is plain the Apostle intended the word should be taken in that extent; his argumentconcluding yet more strongly against some other species of lewdness, than against what is called simple fornication, detestable as that is. See on 1 Corinthians 5:1. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:9

9. I wrote . . . in an epistle—rather, "in the Epistle": a former one not now extant. That Paul does not refer to the present letter is proved by the fact that no direction "not to company with fornicators" occurs in the previous part of it; also the words, "in an (or, the) epistle," could not have been added if he meant, "I have just written" ( :-). "His letters" (plural; not applying to merely one) confirm this. :- also refers to our first Epistle, just as here a former letter is referred to... read more

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