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A Higher Standard for the Church
Commentators stress that Paul's command is not about avoiding non-believers, but about holding fellow Christians (those "called a brother") to a higher account. The church must withdraw fellowship from professing believers who live in unrepentant sin to protect its purity, integrity, and public witness.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 5:11
18th Century
Theologian
But now. In this epistle. This shows that he had written a former letter.
I have written unto you. Above. I have desig…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I write unto you (νυν δε εγραψα υμιν). This is the epistolary aorist referring to this same epistle and not to a previous …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 5:11
19th Century
Bishop
But now I have written to you... —that is, “But what I meant was” that you were not to associate with a Christia…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 5:11
Having explained that he did not mean Christians are to be totally dissociated from the world, Paul hastens to add that the church community should…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 5:11
16th Century
Theologian
If he who is called a brother—in the Greek, there is a participle without a verb. Those who view this as referring to what follows derive …
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 5:11
17th Century
Pastor
But now have I written unto you
Which shows, that what he had written before was at another time, and in another epi…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 5:9–13
17th Century
Minister
Christians are to avoid close association with all who disgrace the Christian name. Such are only fit companions for their fellows in sin, and to s…