1 Corinthians 5:9

“I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:”

"I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:" - 1 Corinthians 5:9
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What does 1 Corinthians 5:9 mean?

The verse 1 Corinthians 5:9 in the King James Version of the Bible reads: "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators." This verse comes from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians, specifically within the context of addressing the issue of immorality…

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The Call to Spiritual Separation: Understanding God's Standards

In the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he addresses a pervasive issue within the church at Corinth that mirrors many challenges faced by modern believers. The specific verse, 1 Corinthians 5:9, states, "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with…

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A Prayer for Purity and Discernment

Heavenly Father, We come before Your throne of grace this day, humbly seeking Your guidance and wisdom. As we reflect on the words of the Apostle Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians, where he exhorts us not to company with fornicators (1 Corinthians 5:9), we recognize…

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1 Corinthians 5:9 - "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:"
1 Corinthians 5: 9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11 - "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 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. 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."
"I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 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. 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." - 1 Corinthians 5:9-11
1 Corinthians 9:5 - "Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?"
2 Corinthians 5:9 - "Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him."
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
1 Corinthians 9:5 - "Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?"
1 Corinthians 9:4 - "Have we not power to eat and to drink?"
1 Corinthians 12:5 - "And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord."
1 Corinthians 15:5 - "And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:"
1 Corinthians 13:9 - "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part."
1 Corinthians 1:5 - "That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;"
1 Corinthians 5:5 - "To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
1 Corinthians 11:9 - "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man."
1 Corinthians 9:3 - "Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,"
"Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?" - 1 Corinthians 9:5
2 Corinthians 9:1 - "For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:"
"Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him." - 2 Corinthians 5:9
1 Corinthians 16:9 - "For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries."
1 Corinthians 9:9 - "For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?"
Eternal Victor's Crown: 1 Corinthians 9:25
1 Corinthians 9:6 - "Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?"
1 Corinthians 9:8 - "Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?"
1 Corinthians 2:5 - "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."
1 Corinthians 9:23 - "And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you."