1 Corinthians 5:10
Good News Translation
Now I did not mean pagans who are immoral or greedy or are thieves, or who worship idols. To avoid them you would have to get out of the world completely.

New Revised Standard Version
not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy and robbers, or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of the world.

Contemporary English Version
But I wasn't talking about the people of this world. You would have to leave this world to get away from everyone who is immoral or greedy or who cheats or worships idols.

New American Bible
not at all referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

altogether.

1 Corinthians 10:27 If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

of this.

1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

John 8:23 And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You are of this world: I am not of this world.

John 15:19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 17:6,9,15,16 I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

1 John 4:5,7 They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them. . . .

for.

Matthew 5:14-16 You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. . . .

John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

Context
Expel the Immoral Brother
9I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. 10I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world. 11But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.…
Cross References
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

1 Corinthians 5:9
I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.

1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

1 Corinthians 10:27
If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

1 Corinthians 5:9
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