9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-13)Here the apostle advises them to shun the company and converse of scandalous professors. Consider, I. The advice itself: I wrote to you in a letter not to company with fornicators , 1 Cor. 5:9. Some think this was an epistle written to them before, which is lost. Yet we have lost nothing by it, the Christian revelation being entire in those books of scripture which have come down to us, which are…
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