1Cor 5:10 | Family | STEP | Not altogether ; he did not command them wholly to abstain from intercourse with worldly men, for that would require them to retire from the world. It is not the will of God that good men should retire from the world to avoid its evils; nor is that the way to become more holy, useful, or happy. Their duty is to communicate with the wicked, for the purpose of doing them good; and to labor in the world till God shall call them out of it.

1 Corinthians 5:10

Not altogether; he did not command them wholly to abstain from intercourse with worldly men, for that would require them to retire from the world. It is not the will of God that good men should retire from the world to avoid its evils; nor is that the way to become more holy, useful, or happy. Their duty is to communicate with the wicked, for the purpose of doing them good; and to labor in the world till God shall call them out of it.