Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators,
New American Standard Bible
I wrote you in my letter
King James Version
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Holman Bible
I wrote to you in a letter not to associate
International Standard Version
I wrote to you in my letter to stop associating with people who are sexually immoral
American Standard Version
I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;
Amplified
I wrote you in my [previous] letter not to associate with [sexually] immoral people—
An Understandable Version
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
Anderson New Testament
I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;
Bible in Basic English
In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;
Common New Testament
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;
Daniel Mace New Testament
When I formerly writ to you, not to keep company with the vicious:
Darby Translation
I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;
Godbey New Testament
I have written unto you in a letter to have no fellowship with fornicators;
Goodspeed New Testament
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.
John Wesley New Testament
I wrote to you in an epistle, Not to converse with lewd persons.
Julia Smith Translation
I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators.
King James 2000
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Lexham Expanded Bible
I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
Modern King James verseion
I wrote to you in the letter not to associate intimately with fornicators;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I wrote unto you in an epistle that ye should not company with fornicators.
Moffatt New Testament
In my letter I wrote that you were not to associate with the immoral.
Montgomery New Testament
I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral.
NET Bible
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
New Heart English Bible
I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
Noyes New Testament
I wrote to you in that letter, not to keep company with fornicators;
Sawyer New Testament
I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators;
The Emphasized Bible
I wrote a unto you in my letter - not to be mixing yourselves up with fornicators; -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people- -
Webster
I have written to you in this epistle, not to associate with persons guilty of lewdness:
Weymouth New Testament
I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators;
Williams New Testament
I wrote you in my letter to stop associating with sexually immoral people --
World English Bible
I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
Worrell New Testament
I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;
Worsley New Testament
I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers:
Youngs Literal Translation
I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --
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8 Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators, 10 and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world.
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Ephesians 5:11
And do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even rebuke them.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if any man does not obey our word by this letter, note that man, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition, which they received from us.
Psalm 1:1-2
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers,
Proverbs 9:6
Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.
1 Corinthians 5:2
And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.
1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you