1 CORINTHIANS 5:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if 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.”
But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a person do not even eat — 'anyone who calls himself a brother' (ei tis adelphos onomazomenos) is the key: the prohibition targets professing believers engaged in serious sin. 'Not even eat' (mēde synesthienai) means no table fellowship, the mark of community. Excommunication is signal that the person has severed themselves from the body.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 5:11
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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