1 CORINTHIANS 5:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:”
I wrote to you in my earlier letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — Paul references a previous letter (now lost), in which he wrote about separation from sexually immoral persons (pornoi). This earlier counsel is being misunderstood. He must clarify: the prohibition is not absolute separation from all sinners (impossible in the world) but from such persons within the church.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 5:9
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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