1 Corinthians 5:9–11

 We are not to judge those outside of the Body of Christ. That is up to God. We are to make moral decisions on those who claim to be members of the Body.

We must judge with compassion, grace and thru the lens of love, not with the letter of the law, which offers no hope for the  love of God in all situations for those who believe. 

As in the Scripture story of the prodigal son…God rushes to those who repent and call on Him for salvation. There is no one righteous, no, not one.

1 Corinthians 5:9–11

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.

Paul is not referring to the immoral people of the world (his mission field), but to those who call themselves Christians and participate in immorality. He views such people as dangerous to the overall health of the congregation since they may entice others to follow them in sin. In Paul’s time, Jews regarded Gentiles as sexually immoral.Paul may be referring either to meals in the church community or to all meals in general, even those between individuals. Faithlife Bible.

Christians are called to influence the world, not run away from it. They are agents of God to carry the light of Jesus Christ into a dark world.

Eating together is a key part of fellowship and closeness with others. The Corinthians were not to have fellowship with those who claimed to be Christians but whose lives were dominated by sin. NKJ Bible.

Death is not the final chapter in your story. John 11:25 and 26 assure us that in death we will step into the arms of the One who declared: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.” Max Lucado

Matthew 18:17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.

Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

John 17:6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

Ephesians 5:5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.