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 6:9 in other translations
| BSB | Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, |
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| WEB | Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, |
| ASV | 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, |
| YLT | have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, |
| DARBY | 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, |
| BBE | 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, |
| Webster | 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, |
What does 1 Corinthians 6:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
The unrighteous. The unjust αδικοι--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, Mt 9:29; Mt 25:34, Mk 10:17, Lk 10:25, 18:18, 1Cor 15:50, Eph 1:11,14, 5:5.
The kingdom of God. Cannot be saved; cannot enter into heaven. Mt 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.
(a) Their own hearts might have deceived them.
(b) They might be deceived by their false opinions on these subjects.
(c) They might be in danger of being deceived by their leaders, who perhaps held the opinion that some of the persons who practised 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
(a) the soul is of infinite value.
(b) To lose heaven--to be disappointed in regard to that, will be a tremendous loss.
(c) To inherit hell and its woes will be a tremendous curse. Oh, how anxious should all be that they be not deceived, and that while they hope for life, they do not sink down to everlasting death!
Neither fornicators. See Gal 5:19-21, Eph 5:4,5, Heb 12:14, 13:4. Rom 1:29.
Nor effeminate, μαλακοι. This word occurs in Mt 11:8, and Lk 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 nowhere 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 practise 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. vii. 5, 4; Xenoph. Mem. iii. 7, 1; Ovid, Fast. iv. 342. The connexion 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. αρσενοκοιται. Paederastae, or Sodomites. Those who indulged in a vice that was common among all the heathen. Rom 1:27.
(b) "fornicators" Gal 5:19-21, Eph 5:4,5, Heb 12:14,18, 13:4, Rev 22:15
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
1 Corinthians 6:9 in the original Greek
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Cross references for 1 Corinthians 6:9
- 1 Timothy 1:9-10
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
- Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 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 5:4-5
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
- Revelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
- 1 Corinthians 6:10
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
- Romans 1:26-27
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
- 1 Corinthians 5:10
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
- Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2,3,15,16,19; 3:16; 9:24
unrighteous.
Ex 23:1; Le 19:15,35,36; De 25:13-16; Pr 11:1; 22:8; Isa 10:1,2
Isa 55:7; Zec 5:3; Ac 24:25; Ro 1:18; 1Ti 1:9
inherit.
10; 15:50; Mt 19:29; 25:34; Ga 5:21
fornicators.
5:1,10; Ga 5:19-21; Eph 5:4,5; 1Ti 1:9; Heb 12:14,16; 13:4; Re 21:8
Re 22:15
abusers.
Ge 19:5; Le 18:22; 20:13; De 22:5; 23:17; Jud 19:22; Ro 1:26,27
1Ti 1:10
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Context
- 1 Corinthians 6:8
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
- 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 6:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿No sabéis que los injustos no poseerán el reino de Dios? No erréis, que ni los fornicarios, ni los idólatras, ni los adúlteros, ni los afeminados, ni los que se echan con varones, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ne savez-vous pas que les injustes n’hériteront point du royaume de Dieu? Ne vous y trompez pas: ni fornicateurs, ni idolâtres, ni adultères, ni efféminés, ni ceux qui abusent d’eux-mêmes avec des hommes, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Oder wisset ihr nicht, daß Ungerechte das Reich Gottes nicht ererben werden? Irret euch nicht! Weder Hurer, noch Götzendiener, noch Ehebrecher, noch Weichlinge, noch Knabenschänder, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | An nescitis quia iniqui regnum Dei non possidebunt? Nolite errare: neque fornicarii, neque idolis servientes, neque adulteri, |