1 Corinthians 6:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God. American Standard Version (1901) nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Common English Bible thieves, the greedy, drunks, abusive people, and swindlers won’t inherit God’s kingdom. Catholic Public Domain Version nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God. |
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.
Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it. This is the Lord’s declaration.
‘ “Now look, I clap my hands together against the dishonest profit you have made and against the blood shed among you.
‘Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.
The people of the land have practised extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and unlawfully exploited the resident foreigner.
Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, ‘May no fruit ever come from you again! ’ At once the fig tree withered.
‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in. ,
‘Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell? ,
He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.
‘And now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor can the perishable inherit the imperishable.
But actually, I wrote you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
envy, , drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you about these things #– #as I warned you before #– #that those who practise such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.
For know and recognise this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
This means one must not transgress against and take advantage of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offences, as we also previously told and warned you.
Let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler.