1 Corinthians 5:9-11
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not 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 out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not 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 out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
The issue for church discipline here in the church at Corinth was sexual immorality. The principle and command here is to not associate with those living in sin in the church, who profess to be reborn followers of Christ. We are not to pull out of the world which is rampant with sexually sinful people, for God’s word already holds them and all others as sinners under His just wrath. No, but we are to shun those within the true church who continue in unrepentant sin, including the sexual as well as drunks and others. Paul went as far as to specify not even dining with those who refuse to confess and repent. The goal is to bring them to conviction and restorative repentance. Of course, this is all to be done in love.
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