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But now I have written unto you not to keep company, ifl 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.

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Rom. 16:17• ¹⁷But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those that make divisions and occasions of stumblingblocks contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them. (Rom. 16:17)

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2 John 10• ¹⁰If Anyone cometh to you and bringeth not this doctrine, receive him not at home and greet him not; (2 John 10)

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1 Cor. 6:6• ⁶But brother goeth to law with brother, and this before unbelievers. (1 Cor. 6:6)

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1 Cor. 7:12,15• ¹²But to the rest I say, not the Lord, if any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her;
¹⁵But if the unbelieving separateth himself, let him be separated. The brother or the sister is not in bondage in such [circumstances]: but God hath called us in peace. (1 Cor. 7:12,15)

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1 Cor. 8:11• ¹¹And he that is weak perisheth by thy knowledge, the brother for whom Christ died? (1 Cor. 8:11)

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Matt. 18:17• ¹⁷{i}But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.{/i} (Matt. 18:17)

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Acts 9:17• ¹⁷And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his hands upon him he said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus that appeared to thee in the way which thou camest, hath sent me, so that thou mightest receive sight and be filled with [the] Holy Spirit. (Acts 9:17)

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Rom. 16:17• ¹⁷But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those that make divisions and occasions of stumblingblocks contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them. (Rom. 16:17)

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2 Thess. 3:6,14• ⁶Now we charge you, brethren, in [the] name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us.
¹⁴And if any obeyeth not our word by the epistle, mark him to keep no company with him, that he may be ashamed; (2 Thess. 3:6,14)

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2 John 10• ¹⁰If Anyone cometh to you and bringeth not this doctrine, receive him not at home and greet him not; (2 John 10)

fornicator.

1 Cor. 5:1‑10• ¹Universal report is of fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
²And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that did this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.
³For I, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,
⁴in the name of our Lord Jesus [Christ], ye and my spirit being gathered together with the power of our Lord Jesus [Christ], [concerning] him that so wrought this(
⁵to deliver such an one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
⁶Your boasting [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
⁷Purge out the old leaven that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our Passover, Christ, was sacrificed.
⁸Wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
⁹I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;
¹⁰not absolutely with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious or idolatrous, since [in that case] ye must go out of the world. (1 Cor. 5:1‑10)

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Psa. 50:16‑21• (Psa. 50:16‑21)

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2 Cor. 12:20‑21• ²⁰For I fear lest by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found by you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strife, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions;
²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (2 Cor. 12:20‑21)

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Gal. 5:19‑21• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)

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1 Thess. 4:3‑8• ³For this is [the] will of God, your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
⁴that each of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
⁵not in passion of lust, even as also the Gentiles that know not God;
⁶that he should not over-reach and wrong his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger in respect of all these things, even as we told you before and fully testified.
⁷For God called us not for uncleanness but in sanctification.
⁸Wherefore then he that disregardeth disregardeth not man but God that [also] gave his Holy Spirit unto you. (1 Thess. 4:3‑8)

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Rev. 2:14• ¹⁴But I have a few things against thee, [because] thou hast there {i}some{/i} {i}that{/i} hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication. (Rev. 2:14)

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Rev. 2:20• ²⁰But I have against thee that thou lettest alone the woman Jezebel that calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and deceiveth my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols. (Rev. 2:20)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

or covetous.

Psa. 10:3• (Psa. 10:3)

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Mark 7:21‑23• ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
²³all these wicked things go forth from within, and defile the man. (Mark 7:21‑23)

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Luke 12:15‑31• ¹⁵{i}And{/i} he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for [it is] not because a man is in abundance [that] his life is in his possessions.
¹⁶{i}And{/i} he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully;
¹⁷and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not [a place] where I shall lay up my fruits?
¹⁸{i}And{/i} he said, This will I do; I will take away my granaries, and build greater; and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;
¹⁹and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid up for many years; repose thyself; eat, drink, be merry.
²⁰But God said unto him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
²¹Thus is he who layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
²²And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on.
²³The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.
²⁴Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feedeth them. How much better are ye than the birds?
²⁵{i}But{/i} which of you, by being careful, can add to his stature one cubit?
²⁶If therefore ye cannot [do] even what is least, why are ye careful about the rest?
²⁷Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I say unto you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.
²⁸But if God thus clothe the grass, which Today is in the field, and tomorrow is cast into [the] oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith?
²⁹{i}And ye,{/i} seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;
³⁰for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things;
³¹but seek his kingdom; and [all] these things shall be added unto you. (Luke 12:15‑31)

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Eph. 5:5• ⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:5)

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Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; (Col. 3:5)

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1 Tim. 3:3• ³not given to wine, no striker, but gentle, not contentious, not fond of money, (1 Tim. 3:3)

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1 Tim. 6:9‑10• ⁹But those that wish to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, such as sink men into destruction and perdition.
¹⁰For a root of all evils is the love of money, which some eagerly seeking were led astray from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains. (1 Tim. 6:9‑10)

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2 Peter 2:14‑15• ¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵abandoning as they did a straight way, they went astray, following out in the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved wages of unrighteousness, (2 Peter 2:14‑15)

or an idolater.

1 Cor. 10:7‑8,14,18‑22• ⁷Neither be ye idolaters, even as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
⁸Neither let us commit fornication, even as some of them committed, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.
¹⁴Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
¹⁸See Israel according to flesh: are not they that eat the sacrifices in fellowship with the altar?
¹⁹What say I then? that an idol-sacrifice is anything, or that an idol is anything?
²⁰but that what they sacrifice, they sacrificed to demons, and not to God; and I wish you not to be in fellowship with demons.
²¹Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and a cup of demons; ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of a table of demons.
²²What! do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? (1 Cor. 10:7‑8,14,18‑22)

or a railer.

1 Cor. 6:10• ¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom. (1 Cor. 6:10)

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Psa. 101:5• (Psa. 101:5)

or a drunkard.

1 Cor. 11:21• ²¹For each in eating taketh his own supper before [others]; and one is hungry, and another drinketh excessively. (1 Cor. 11:21)

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Matt. 24:49‑51• ⁴⁹and shall begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and shall eat and drink with the drunken,
⁵⁰the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour that he knoweth not,
⁵¹and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:49‑51)

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Luke 12:45‑46• ⁴⁵But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,
⁴⁶the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he doth not expect it, and in an hour he knoweth not of, and shall cut him in two, and appoint his portion with the unbelievers. (Luke 12:45‑46)

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Luke 21:34• ³⁴But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares, (Luke 21:34)

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Rom. 13:13• ¹³As in daylight, let us walk becomingly, not in revels and drunkenness, not in chambering and indecency, not in strife and envy; (Rom. 13:13)

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Gal. 2:12• ¹²for before that certain came from James, he ate with the nations; but when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, being afraid of those of the circumcision; (Gal. 2:12)

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Eph. 5:18• ¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled with [the] Spirit, (Eph. 5:18)

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1 Thess. 5:7‑8• ⁷For they that sleep sleep by night, and they that are drunk drink by night;
⁸but we being of day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and hope of salvation as helmet. (1 Thess. 5:7‑8)

or an extortioner.

Ezek. 22:12• (Ezek. 22:12)

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Matt. 23:25• ²⁵{i}Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.{/i} (Matt. 23:25)

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Luke 18:11• ¹¹The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer. (Luke 18:11)

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1 Cor. 5:13• ¹³But those without God judgeth. Put out the wicked person from among yourselves. (1 Cor. 5:13)

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Matt. 18:17• ¹⁷{i}But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.{/i} (Matt. 18:17)

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Rom. 16:17• ¹⁷But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those that make divisions and occasions of stumblingblocks contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them. (Rom. 16:17)

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2 Thess. 3:6,14• ⁶Now we charge you, brethren, in [the] name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us.
¹⁴And if any obeyeth not our word by the epistle, mark him to keep no company with him, that he may be ashamed; (2 Thess. 3:6,14)

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1 Tim. 6:5• ⁵wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that piety is gain. (1 Tim. 6:5)

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2 John 10• ¹⁰If Anyone cometh to you and bringeth not this doctrine, receive him not at home and greet him not; (2 John 10)

• The meaning is, not that we ought not to take the Lord's supper, but not to eat the least meal with him. The corrupt or violent professor of Christ is to be avoided even in an ordinary social act, not merely on the most solemn occasion of Christian worship. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 5:9-13” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat.

W. Kelly Translation

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But now I have written to you, if anyone called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him], with such an one not even to eat.