10 and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world --
and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;
`Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid; nor do they light a lamp, and put it under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, and it shineth to all those in the house; so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who `is' in the heavens.
if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;
I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil. `Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;
where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?
in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;
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Commentary on 1 Corinthians 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
In this chapter the apostle,
1Cr 5:1-6
Here the apostle states the case; and,
1Cr 5:7-8
Here the apostle exhorts them to purity, by purging out the old leaven. In this observe,
1Cr 5:9-13
Here the apostle advises them to shun the company and converse of scandalous professors. Consider,