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Look at another group in 1 Corinthians 5 that we should separate from. It says in verse 9, 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. So he's saying that he had previously written to them telling them that they should not hang around with fornicators. But he's clarifying now. He's saying I'm not saying not to hang around with the fornicators of this world because he said in order to do that you'd have to leave the world. Because he's saying unsaved people, they're fornicators, they're covetous, they're idolaters. That's just unsaved people acting like unsaved people. So he's saying you don't have to separate from those people in the sense of having no fellowship with them, no company with them. But watch what he says in verse 11, but now I've 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 and one know not to eat. So the Bible is teaching a higher standard of separation for those who are called a brother. He's saying if you're around worldly people, unsaved people that you work with or that you have maybe in your extended family, he's saying if they're fornicators, if they're covetous, if they're idolaters and they're not a Christian, he's saying you don't have to completely withdraw from that person. You could still eat a meal with that person. He's not asking us to leave the world. You know, Jesus prayed and said I pray that you would not take them out of the world but that you would keep them from the evil. That's what he prayed to the father. So we should not withdraw ourselves from society and go live on some compound somewhere, live out in the wilderness somewhere, secluded and isolated like a hermit. No, we should stay amongst the people of this world because it's our job to preach the gospel to every creature. So we're going to interact with people. But the Bible says that if someone's called a brother and they're a fornicator, someone's called a brother and they're an idolater, covetous, railer, drunkard, extortioner with such and one, no, not so much as to eat. I mean, that's pretty strong words they're saying. Don't have anything to do with people like that.