1 Corinthians 5:11 (WEB)
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
Catechism · 1
“For it is now, in this life, that we are offered the choice between life and death, and it is only by the road of conversion that we can enter the Kingdom, from which one is excluded by grave sin.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 5:11; Gal 5:19-21; Rev 22:15.
Fathers and councils · 12
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And we have the precept: “If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such an one go not to eat.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 11.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And farther on he adds: “But now I write unto you not to keep company if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 11.
Read the whole comment“For what have I to do with judging them that are without?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 10, 11.
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John Chrysostom
“For, “if any man who is called a Brother” ( 1 Cor. v. 11 ), he says, meaning here by Brother every one who is a believer simply, not him who leads a solitary life.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But how is it, one may say, that Paul commands, “If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous, with such an one no, not to eat?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 11.
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Tertullian
“…a fornicator, or an idolater” (for what so intimately joined?), “or a defrauder” (for what so near akin?), and so on, “with such to take no food even,” not to say the Eucharist: because, to wit, withal “a little leaven spoileth the flavour of the whole lump.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 9–11.
Read the whole comment“…all intercourse with others), prohibited any communication with a person who was defiled with sins, with whom the apostle also forbids us even to eat food, forasmuch as the taint of sins would be communicated as if contagious, wherever a man should mix himself with the sinner.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 11.
Read the whole comment- Tertullian, To His Wife II.3Book II
“If these things are so, it is certain that believers contracting marriages with Gentiles are guilty of fornication, and are to be excluded from all communication with the brotherhood, in accordance with the letter of the apostle, who says that “with persons of that kind there is to be no taking of food even.”” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. v. 11.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
“But some one may ask, how does Paul bid us, If we have a brother that is a fornicator or covetous man, with such not even to take food; (1 Cor. 5:11.) whereas Christ was the guest of publicans?” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“…in the case of entertainments, saying, that “if any one called a brother be found a fornicator, or an adulterer, or an idolater, with such an one not to eat;” neither in discourse or food are we to join, looking with suspicion on the pollution thence proceeding, as on the tables of the demons.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 11.
Read the whole comment“Unde præ clare Apostolus: “Scripsi,” inquit, “vobis in epistola, non conversari cure fornicatoribus,” usque ad illud: “Corpus autem non fornicationi, sed Domino, et Dominus corpori.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 11.
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Jerome
“And the Apostle writing to the Corinthians:“If any man that is named brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one no, not to eat.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 11.
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Cross-references · 21
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.17.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.17.
Cited together in Catechism §1470.
Cited together in Catechism §1470.
Cited together in Catechism §1470.
Cited together in Catechism §1470.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Luke 19:1–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §1470.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.