1 Corinthians 5:9–11

Faith alone pleases God! In order to receive guidance from Him you have to believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek His will in their life.. 

We must be wise enough to judge those who profess Christianity but their lives do not show any change. Those who do not believe…are not to be judged by us their lives are in God’s hands.

1st Corinthians 5:12 Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.

Be as wise as the serpent but as gentle as the dove!

“Then Jesus said, ‘Stand up. Pick up your mat and walk.’ And immediately the man was well; he picked up his mat and began to walk” (John 5:8-9 NCV).

A gentle stranger has stepped into your hurting world and offered you a hand. Now it’s up to you to take it. Max Lucado 

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. The New King James Version

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. Faithlife Study 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. The church’s responsibility is to discipline its members while trusting the Lord to judge the world. The NKJV Study Bible

Alas, that there are many called Christians, whose conversation is more dangerous than that of heathens! Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

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.