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Paul clarifies that he did not mean avoiding immoral people outside the church, since that would require leaving the world (1 Corinthians 5:9–10). His instruction targets someone who claims to be a brother yet persists in serious sin, where the church should not associate in the same way (1 Corinthians 5:11).
9I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
10yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.
11But as it is, I wrote to you not to keep company, if any man who is named a brother is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don`t even eat with such a person.