1 CORINTHIANS 5:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.”
Not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world — Paul clarifies: if he meant worldly sinners (hoi porni ho tou kosmou), the Corinthians would have to withdraw from society entirely (exit the world). That is not feasible or commanded. Christians live in a pagan world; contact with sinners is unavoidable and proper.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 5:10
For since he had said, “You have not rather mourned, that such an one should be taken away;” and, “Purge out the old leaven;” and it was likely that they would surmise it to be their duty to avoid all fornicators: for if he that has sinned imparts some of his own mischief to those who have not sinned, much more is it meet to keep one's self away from those without: (for if one ought not to spare a friend on account of such mischief arising from him, much less any others;) and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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