1 Corinthians 6 · Verse 10

1 Corinthians 6:10

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:10, King James Version

1 Corinthians 6:10 in other translations

BSBnor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
WEBnor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
ASVnor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
YLTnor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.
DARBYnor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
BBEOr is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
WebsterNor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

What does 1 Corinthians 6:10 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 10. Nor covetous 1Cor 5:10. It is remarkable that the apostle always rank the covetous with the most abandoned classes of men.

Nor revilers. The same word, which, in 1Cor 5:11 is rendered railer. 1Cor 5:11.

Nor extortioners. 1Cor 5:11.

Shall inherit. Shall enter; shall be saved, 1Cor 6:9.

(*) "extortioners" "Oppressors"

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

The Corinthians are warned against many great evils, of which they had formerly been guilty. There is much force in these inquiries, when we consider that they were addressed to a people puffed up with a fancy of their being above others in wisdom and knowledge. All unrighteousness is sin; all reigning sin, nay, every actual sin, committed with design, and not repented of, shuts out of the kingdom of heaven. Be not…

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1 Corinthians 6:10 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

οὔτεoutenorG3777
κλέπταιkleptaithievesG2812
οὔτεoutenorG3777
πλεονέκταιpleonektaicovetersG4123
οὐounotG3756
μέθυσοιmethusoidrunkardsG3183
οὐounorG3756
λοίδοροιloidoroirevilersG3060
οὐχouchnorG3756
ἅρπαγεςharpagesswindlersG727
βασιλείανbasileian[the] kingdomG932
θεοῦtheouof GodG2316
κληρονομήσουσιν.klēronomēsousinwill inherit.G2816

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Cross references for 1 Corinthians 6:10

  • 1 Corinthians 5:11

    But now I have written unto you not to keep company, 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 no not to eat.

  • Galatians 5:21

    Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

  • Ephesians 4:28

    Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

  • Ezekiel 22:29

    The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • Ezekiel 22:27

    Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

  • 1 Peter 4:15

    But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

  • Matthew 23:33

    Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

  • Psalms 50:17-18

    Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

  • John 12:6

    This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

  • Ezekiel 22:13

    Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:6

    That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

  • Isaiah 1:23

    Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
thieves.
Ps 50:17,18; Isa 1:23; Jer 7:11; Eze 22:13,27,29; Mt 21:19
Mt 23:14,33; Joh 12:6; Eph 4:28; 1Th 4:6; 1Pe 4:15
covetous.
5:11

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Context

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9

    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 mankind,

  • 1 Corinthians 6:10

    Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:11

    And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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1 Corinthians 6:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Ni los ladrones, ni los avaros, ni los borrachos, ni los maldicientes, ni los robadores, heredarán el reino de Dios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
ni voleurs, ni avares, ni ivrognes, ni outrageux, ni ravisseurs, n’hériteront du royaume de Dieu.
German
Elberfelder 1871
noch Diebe, noch Habsüchtige, noch Trunkenbolde, noch Schmäher, noch Räuber werden das Reich Gottes ererben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
neque molles, neque masculorum concubitores, neque fures, neque avari, neque ebriosi, neque maledici, neque rapaces regnum Dei possidebunt.