1 Corinthian 5:9-13

 Immorality Must Be Judged!

GOD  expects us to forgive any person who ask. The moral dilemma comes when a believer who is in sin refuses to acknowledge it as sin and continues in it. We must call good, good and sin, sin. the FATHER calls us to be holy as He is holy. It is a thin line that is drawn in being a Pharisee or a faithful follower…may the HOLY SPIRIT give us the wisdom to know the difference.

 Intention is everything!

Paul is not referring to the sexually immoral people of the world (his mission field), but to those who call themselves Christians and participate in sexual immorality. He views such people as dangerous to the overall health of the congregation since they may entice others to follow them in sin. Paul intends for the immoral believer to be expelled so that he may repent and then be restored back to the community. Faithlife Bible.

Paul here corrects a misunderstanding arising out of his previous letter. He had commanded the Corinthians to withdraw themselves from sexually immoral people. In this letter, Paul explains that he was not speaking of the pagan culture around them. If they withdrew totally they would be unable to function in the world. Instead, he was talking about the immorality in their midst. They should judge the sin among themselves, while still reaching out to the lost in Corinth. NKJ Bible.

1 Corinthians 5:9–13 (NKJV)

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.”

Deuteronomy 17:12 (NKJV)

¹² Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel.