1 Corinthians 6:9,10

On ἤ οὐκ οἴδατε; see note to 1 Corinthians 6:2. The wrongers of their brethren are surely unaware of the fact that “wrong-doers (ἄδικοι) will not inherit God's kingdom” (which nevertheless they profess to seek, 1 Corinthians 1:7 ff.) an axiom of revelation, indeed of conscience, but the over-clever sometimes forget elementary moral principles; hence the μὴ πλανᾶσθε. Their conduct puts them on a level with the heathen (οἱ ἄδικοι, 1). Θεοῦ βασιλείαν (doubly anarthrous; see note on 1 Corinthians 2:5), “ God's kingdom” the expression indicating the region and nature of the realm from which unrighteousness excludes; “the kingdom of God is righteousness” (Romans 14:17; cf. Matthew 5:10; Matthew 13:43; Luke 14:14; Revelation 1:18; Revelation 2:8 f., etc.). The deception taking place on this fundamental point springs from the frivolity of the Hellenic nature; it had a specific cause in the libertinism deduced from the gospel of Free Grace and the abrogation of the Mosaic Law (1 Corinthians 6:12 f., see notes; cf. Romans 6:1; Romans 6:15; Galatians 5:13). In 1 Corinthians 6:9 b, 1 Corinthians 6:10 the general warning is carried into detail. Ten classes of sinners are distinguished, uncleanness and greed furnishing the prevailing categories (cf. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11): “neither fornicators (the conspicuous sin of Cor.: 1 Corinthians 5:1, etc.; 1 Corinthians 7:2) … neither covetous men no drunkards, no railers, no plunderers (see txtl. note) will inherit,” etc. Idolaters are ranged between fornicators and adulterers an association belonging to the cultus of Aphrodité Pandemos at Cor [953] μαλακοί, soft, voluptuous, appears in this connexion to signify general addiction to sins of the flesh; lexical ground is wanting for the sense of pathici, suggested to some interpreters by the following word and by the use of molles in Latin. For ἀρσενοκοῖται (cl [954] παιδερασταί), whose sin of Sodom was widely and shamelessly practised by the Greeks; cf. Romans 1:24 ff., written from Cor [955] The three detached classes appended by οὐ to the οὔτε list were specified in 1 Corinthians 5:11; see notes.

[953] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians.

[954] classical.

[955] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians.