1 Corinthians 5:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

{G2532} not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ οὐ πάντως τοῖς πόρνοις τοῦ κόσμου τούτου, ἢ τοῖς πλεονέκταις, ἢ ἅρπαξιν, ἢ εἰδωλολάτραις· ἐπεὶ ὀφείλετε ἄρα ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου ἐξελθεῖν.

Transliteration

And not at all with the pornois of this kosmou, or with the pleonektais, or harpaxin, or eidōlolatrais; since you opheilete ara from the kosmou exelthein.

Grammar Details

• *pornois*: dative, masculine, plural - sexually immoral persons/fornicators
• *kosmou*: genitive, masculine, singular - world
• *pleonektais*: dative, masculine, plural - greedy persons/covetous
• *harpaxin*: dative, masculine, plural - swindlers/robbers
• *eidōlolatrais*: dative, masculine, plural - idolaters
• *opheilete*: present active, 2nd plural - you are obligated/you must
• *ara*: particle - then/consequently
• *exelthein*: aorist active infinitive - to go out/depart

Word Meanings

• *pornois*: sexually immoral persons/fornicators/prostitutes
• *kosmou*: world/society/universe
• *pleonektais*: greedy persons/covetous people/the avaricious
• *harpaxin*: swindlers/robbers/extortioners
• *eidōlolatrais*: idolaters/idol worshippers
• *opheilete ara*: you would need to/you would have to
• *exelthein*: go out/depart/leave

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:27 : 27 If one of them that believe not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].
• Eph 2:2 : 2 wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
• Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
• 1 John 4:5 : 5 They are of the world: therefore {G5124} speak they [as] of the world, and the world heareth them.
• 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
• Matt 5:14-16 : 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do [men] light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the stand; and it shineth unto all that are in the house. 16 Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
• John 8:23 : 23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
• John 15:19 : 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love {G302} its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore {G5124} the world hateth you.
• John 17:6 : 6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.
• John 17:9 : 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:
• John 17:15-16 : 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil [one]. 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
• 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?