OUR FATHER WHO IS THE JUDGE OF ALL

The apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 9 -  13, pressed further with the issue of worldly behaviour within the church and how those who practiced such behaviour  needed to be expelled from the midst so that worldiness would not spread to everyone else.

9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”

Paul clarified his guidance to the believers at Corinth so that they would not socially distance from the non-believers but rather from those in their midst who professed faith but unrepentantly lived  in a worldly way.

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