1 Corinthians 6:9

Contextual Overview

⁹ Don't you know that unrighteous people will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't delude yourselves — people who engage in sex before marriage, who worship idols, who engage in sex after marriage with someone other than their spouse, who engage in active or passive homosexuality, ⁹ Do ye not know that unrighteous [persons] shall not inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men, ⁹ Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, ⁹ You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,1 Corinthians 15:50; Galatians 5:21; Ephesians 5:5; 1 Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 12:14; 13:4; Revelation 22:15;">[xr] ⁹ Or, know you not that the unjust the kingdom of Aloha cannot inherit? Do not err; neither fornicators, nor the servers of idols, nor adulterers, nor corrupters, nor liers with men, nor the oppressive, ⁹ Or do ye not know, that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not mistake; neither whoremongers, nor idol-worshippers, nor adulterers, nor debauchers, nor liers with males, ⁹ Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, ⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, ⁹ Knowe yee not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor buggerers,

Bible Verse Review
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Know: 1 Corinthians 6:2, 1 Corinthians 6:3, 1 Corinthians 6:15, 1 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 9:24

unrighteous: Exodus 23:1, Leviticus 19:15, Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Deuteronomy 25:13-16, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 22:8, Isaiah 10:1, Isaiah 10:2, Isaiah 55:7, Zechariah 5:3, Acts 24:25, Romans 1:18, 1 Timothy 1:9

inherit: 1 Corinthians 6:10, 1 Corinthians 15:50, Matthew 19:29, Matthew 25:34, Galatians 5:21

fornicators: 1 Corinthians 5:1, 1 Corinthians 5:10, Galatians 5:19-21, Ephesians 5:4, Ephesians 5:5, 1 Timothy 1:9, Hebrews 12:14, Hebrews 12:16, Hebrews 13:4, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

abusers: Genesis 19:5, Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Deuteronomy 22:5, Deuteronomy 23:17, Judges 19:22, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:27, 1 Timothy 1:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:7 - General Genesis 39:9 - how then Exodus 30:19 - General Leviticus 6:7 - it shall be Leviticus 14:3 - be healed Leviticus 18:20 - General Numbers 9:10 - be unclean Deuteronomy 25:16 - all that do Deuteronomy 27:9 - this day 1 Kings 14:24 - And there 1 Kings 22:46 - the remnant Psalms 68:13 - ye have Psalms 68:18 - rebellious Proverbs 2:18 - General Proverbs 8:5 - General Isaiah 11:6 - General Isaiah 32:16 - General Isaiah 35:7 - the parched Isaiah 40:2 - that her iniquity Isaiah 40:28 - thou not known Isaiah 55:13 - of the thorn Isaiah 65:25 - wolf Jeremiah 5:7 - they then Jeremiah 7:9 - steal Jeremiah 23:10 - full Ezekiel 18:6 - neither hath defiled Ezekiel 22:11 - committed Zechariah 14:21 - no more Malachi 3:5 - the sorcerers Matthew 8:11 - in Matthew 9:13 - to call Matthew 15:20 - which Matthew 22:10 - both Mark 2:17 - I came Luke 1:17 - and the Luke 5:32 - General Luke 7:47 - which Luke 15:15 - to feed Luke 19:9 - This day Acts 10:12 - General Acts 15:20 - fornication Acts 18:10 - for Acts 24:26 - hoped Romans 3:10 - none Romans 4:5 - ungodly Romans 5:16 - but the free Romans 5:20 - But Romans 6:3 - Know Romans 6:13 - unrighteousness Romans 6:17 - that Romans 6:23 - For the wages Romans 9:30 - the Gentiles Romans 11:30 - as ye Romans 13:13 - chambering Romans 14:17 - kingdom 1 Corinthians 1:2 - sanctified 1 Corinthians 3:18 - deceive 1 Corinthians 5:8 - not 1 Corinthians 10:7 - be 1 Corinthians 10:8 - General 1 Corinthians 15:33 - Be 2 Corinthians 12:21 - and have not Galatians 6:7 - not Ephesians 2:3 - we Ephesians 4:17 - that ye Ephesians 5:3 - fornication Philippians 3:18 - I have Colossians 1:13 - and Colossians 1:21 - sometime Colossians 3:5 - fornication 1 Thessalonians 4:3 - that 2 Thessalonians 2:3 - no man Titus 2:12 - denying Titus 3:3 - we James 1:22 - deceiving 2 Peter 2:10 - in the 1 John 3:7 - let Revelation 21:27 - there

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,

Genesis 2:4
This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky.

Genesis 2:4
This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the eretz when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made eretz and the heavens.

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 2:4
And that is how the universe was created. When the Lord God made the universe,

Genesis 2:4
This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?.... A way of speaking much like that in the Talmud, הוי יודע שהעולם הבא אינו עשוי אלא לצדיקים "know thou, that the world to come is not made but for the righteous?" h Without a righteousness there will be no entrance into the world of bliss and happiness hereafter; and this must be a better righteousness than what a sinful creature is capable of working out, and no other than the righteousness of Christ. It was a loss and want of righteousness that cast the angels down from heaven, and turned Adam out of paradise; and whoever of his posterity: are destitute of one, will fall short of enjoying the glory of God; for it is not agreeable to the holy nature of God, to his infinite justice and righteous law, to admit any into heaven without a righteousness: hence a judgment seat is erected, before which all must stand; and those that will be found without a righteousness, will be for ever excluded the kingdom of heaven; and could any unrighteous persons be received there, it would spoil the pleasure and happiness of the saints. Now this is said, partly to dissuade the Corinthians from going to law with each other before unrighteous persons, who have no right to the kingdom of God, and living and dying as they are, will have no share in it; and therefore since they are not to be fellow heirs and companions with them in another world, they should not bring their causes before them in this; and partly to reprove them for their injurious and unrighteous actions among themselves, their tricking and defrauding of one another, with other sins they were guilty of; which, if not repented of, would show, that notwithstanding their profession, they were destitute of the grace of God, were unfit to be in the kingdom of God, in a Gospel church state here below, and would be shut out of the kingdom of heaven hereafter.

Be not deceived imagining, that through your knowledge and profession you shall be saved, live as you will:

neither fornicators, such as are guilty of uncleanness with persons in a single state:

nor idolaters; who worship more gods than one, and not the true God; who do service to them that are not gods, and perform what the Jews call עבודה זרה "strange service": and not only fall down to stocks and stones, but serve divers lusts and pleasures, the idols of their own hearts:

nor adulterers: such as have criminal conversation with persons in a married state:

nor effeminate; or "soft", or, as the Syriac renders it, מחבלא, "corrupters"; that is, of themselves, by voluntary pollution, such as are guilty of the sin of Onan, Genesis 38:8.

Nor abusers of themselves with mankind; sodomites.

h T. Bab. Yebamot, fol 47. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Know ye not ... - The apostle introduces the declaration in this verse to show the evil of their course, and especially of the injustice which they did one to another, and their attempt to enforce and maintain the evil by an appeal to the pagan tribunals. He assures them, therefore, that the unjust could not be saved.

The unrighteous - The unjust ἄδικοι adikoi - such as he had just mentioned - they who did injustice to others, and attempted to do it under the sanction of the courts.

Shall not inherit - Shall not possess; shall not enter into. The kingdom of heaven is often represented as an “inheritance;” Matthew 19:29; Matthew 25:34; Mark 10:17; Luke 10:25; Luke 18:18; 1 Corinthians 15:50; Ephesians 1:11, Ephesians 1:14; Ephesians 5:5.

The kingdom of God - Cannot be saved; cannot enter into heaven; see the note at Matthew 3:2. This may refer either to the kingdom of God in heaven; or to the church on earth - most probably the former. But the sense is the same essentially, whichever is meant. The man who is not fit to enter into the one is not fit to enter into the other. The man who is fit to enter the kingdom of God on earth, shall also enter into that in heaven.

Be not deceived - A most important direction to be given to all. It implies:

(1) That they were in danger of being deceived:

1. Their own hearts might have deceived them.
1. They might be deceived by their false opinions on these subjects.
2. They might be in danger of being deceived by their leaders, who perhaps held the opinion that some of the persons who practiced these things could be saved.

(2) It implies, that there was “no necessity” of their being deceived. They might know the truth. They might easily understand these matters. It might be plain to them that those who indulged in these things could not be saved.

(3) It implies that it was of high importance that they should not be deceived. For:

1. The soul is of infinite value.
1. To lose heaven - to be disappointed in regard to that, will be a tremendous loss.
2. To inherit hell and its woes will be a tremendous curse. O how anxious should all be that they he not deceived, and that while they hope for life they do not sink down to everlasting death!

Neither fornicators - See Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:4-5; Hebrews 12:14; Hebrews 13:4. See the note at Romans 1:29.

Nor effeminate - μαλακοὶ malakoi. This word occurs in Matthew 11:8, and Luke 7:25, where it is applied to clothing, and translated “soft raiment;” that is, the light, thin garments worn by the rich and great. It occurs no where else in the New Testament except here. Applied to morals, as it is here, it denotes those who give themselves up to a soft, luxurious, and indolent way of living; who make self-indulgence the grand object of life; who can endure no hardship, and practice no self-denial in the cause of duty and of God. The word is applied in the classic writers to the Cinaedi, the Pathics, or Catamites; those who are given up to wantonness and sensual pleasures, or who are kept to be prostituted to others. Diog. Laer. Luke 7:5, Luke 7:4. Xenoph. Mem. Luke 3:7. Luke 3:1. Ovid Fast. 4:342. The connection here seems to demand such an interpretation, as it occurs in the description of vices of the same class - sensual and corrupt indulgences - It is well known that this vice was common among the Greeks - and particularly prevailed at Corinth.

Abusers of themselves with mankind - ἀρσενοκοῖτοι arsenokoitoi. Paederastae or Sodomites. Those who indulged in a vice that was common among all the pagan; see the notes at Romans 1:27.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 6:9. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom — The unrighteous, αδικοι, those who act contrary to right, cannot inherit, for the inheritance is by right. He who is not a child of God has no right to the family inheritance, for that inheritance is for the children. If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, Romans 8:17. There are here ten classes of transgressors which the apostle excludes from the kingdom of God; and any man who is guilty of any one of the evils mentioned above is thereby excluded from this kingdom, whether it imply the Church of Christ here below, or the state of glory hereafter.

Several of the evils here enumerated will not bear to be particularly explained; they are, however, sufficiently plain of themselves, and show us what abominations were commonly practised among the Corinthians.