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1 Corinthians 5:9

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

KJV

Ἔγραψα ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ ἐπιστολῇ μὴ συναναμίγνυσθαι πόρνοις,

Greek NT

Scripsi vobis in epistola : Ne commisceamini fornicariis :

Vulgate

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

ASV

I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πόρνος
pornos
noun · 10×
συναναμίγνυμι
sunanamignumi
verb · 3×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπιστολή
epistole
noun · 24×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:27 — If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
  • 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
  • 2Cor 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
  • 2Cor 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
  • 2Cor 12:21 — And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which
  • 2Thess 3:6 — 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.
  • 2Thess 3:14 — 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.
  • Eph 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
  • Eph 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
  • Jude 1:23 — And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
  • Matt 9:11 — And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
  • Matt 18:17 — And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
  • Ps 26:5 — I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
  • Rom 16:17 — Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.