Les Feldick Bible Study

Who will not inherit the kingdom of God according to 1 Corinthians 6?

According to 1 Corinthians 6, fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, the effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners will not inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of the Corinthian believers before they were washed and saved.

Les teaches that this old book is right up front, doesn't pull any punches, and tells it like it is. It plainly says there will be no fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, the effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, or extortioners in the kingdom of God. He stresses that the book says it, not him. Then verse 11 adds, 'And such were some of you,' past tense, showing exactly what the Corinthian believers had been and where they came from. Most had been in that whole category of wickedness. But now they were washed, clean, saved, believers, and heaven bound, even though their past was wickedness and immorality.

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,

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