⁹I wrote to you in a letter not to associate^b with sexually immoral people.^c ¹⁰I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy^d and swindlers^e or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.^f

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Cross references

b 2Th 3:14
c 1Co 6:9; Eph 5:5; 1Tm 1:10; Heb 12:16; 13:4; Rv 21:8; 22:15
d Eph 5:5
e Lk 18:11
f Jn 17:6

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

NLTNew Living Translation

When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or are greedy, or cheat people, or worship idols. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. By no means did I mean the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.

KJV 1900King James Version

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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