New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Corinthians 5:9
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I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
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I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
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I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;
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I wrote to you⁺ in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral [people],
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 Corinthians 5
7 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.
8 Therefore 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.
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10 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.
11 But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
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