Who will be excluded from heaven?

I read a scary, sobering verse today. I'll post it here as a reminder to myself, lest I forget.

The English Standard Version Bible says:

1 Corinthians 6:9-10
1Co 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

However, this is not accurate, because when comparing this to the King James bible and the original Greek bible, something is missing. Here's the King James version:


1Co 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,
1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

KJ / ESV
fornicators / sexually immoral
idolators / idolators
adulterers / adulterers
effeminate / ????
abusers of themselves with mankind / men who practice homosexuality
thieves / thieves
covetous / greedy
drunkards / drunkards
revilers / revilers
extortioners / swindlers

Let's study each one by one
fornicators / sexually immoral
- To commit lewdness, as an unmarried man or woman, or as a married man with an unmarried woman.
- I guess the same applies to a married woman with an unmarried men.
- In general, any kind of lustful act between two people who're not married to each other

idolators / idolators
- those who worship idols

adulterers / adulterers
- a married man committing a lustful act with a woman married to someone else
- a married woman committing a lustful act with a man married to someone else

effeminate / ????
- this item is missing in the ESV bible, lumped in with those who practice homosexuality
- This word occurs in Mat_11:8, and Luk_7:25, where it is applied to clothing, and translated “soft raiment;” that is, the light, thin garments worn by the rich and great.
- It occurs no where else in the New Testament except here.
- Applied to morals, as it is here, it denotes those who give themselves up to a soft, luxurious, and indolent way of living; who make self-indulgence the grand object of life; who can endure no hardship, and practice no self-denial in the cause of duty and of God.
- It is well known that this vice was common among the Greeks - and particularly prevailed at Corinth.

abusers of themselves with mankind / men who practice homosexuality
- the ESV bible is again inferior in this regard, because the Greek "ar-sen-ok-oy'-tace is gender neutral
- a Sodomite
- hence it should be translated those (instead of "men") who practice homosexuality, both men and women

thieves / thieves
- One who takes the property of another wrongfully, either secretly or by violence
- One who makes it his business to cheat and defraud

covetous / greedy
- those who practice avarice, eager for gain, desiring more
- An excessive desire of gaining and possessing wealth; greediness or insatiable desire of gain.

drunkards / drunkards
- One given to intoxication or an excessive used of strong liquor; a person who habitually or frequently is drunk.

revilers / revilers
- also called railers
- A reproachful man (or woman); a man of coarse, harsh, and bitter words; a man whose characteristic it was to abuse others; to vilify(degrade, defile) their character, and wound their feelings. It is needless to say how much this is contrary to the spirit of Christianity, and to the example of the Master, “who when he was reviled, reviled not again.”

extortioners / swindlers
- Rapacious persons; greedy of gain, and oppressing the poor, the needy, and the fatherless, to obtain money.
- Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force