20160720 Wednesday, July 20 2016
1 Corinthians 05: Why The Immoral Will Not Become Immortal

by Wayne Blank
See also 1 Year Holy Bible Reading Plan

"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?"

The English-language word "moral" originated from a Latin word that means manners, as in behavior. The prefix im is from the Latin meaning not i.e. immoral means not behaving in a healthy or successful way (although immorality is today used to refer to bad sexual behavior, the literal meaning meant loser behavior in general, which includes bad sexual behavior). Immoral behavior results in self-inflicted destruction - and damage and misery to others while they're doing so.

The English-language word "mortal" originated from the Latin word for death, mortis. It now is used to refer to the state of being subject to eventual death; hence immortal means not being subject to death (see The Postponement Of Death).

The Word of God is very clear that the defiantly immoral will not become immortal:

"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, 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10 KJV)

Morality is a major element of Christian conversion. Those who don't yet know better have some excuse ("I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 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" - verse 9 and 10 below), while those who have come to know better but flagrantly commit immorality will not be excused ("Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person").

"5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 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. 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. 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person." (1 Corinthians 5:1-13 KJV)

Fact Finder: Does the LORD regard sodomites alone as evil, or does the LORD regard any sexual perversion as equally evil as any other?
See Sexual Abominations