Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 6:9

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 persons , nor abusers of themselves with mankind .

That by the Kingdom of God is here meant the Kingdom of Glory, the happiness of another life, is plain, because he speaketh in the Future tense; this Kingdom, he saith, the unrighteous, that is, those who so live and dye, shall not inherit. If we take the term Vnrighteous here to be a generical term, the Species, or some of the principal Species, of which are afterwards enumerated, it signifieth here the same with notoriously wicked men. But if we take it to signifie persons guilty of acts of injustice towards themselves or others, it cannot be here understood as a general term, relating to all those Species of Sinners after enumerated; for so Idolaters cannot properly be called Unrighteous, but Ungodly men.

Be not deceived (saith the Apostle) either by any false Teachers, or by the many ill examples of such sinners that you daily have, nor by Magistrates connivence at these sins.

Neither such as being single persons commit uncleanness with others (for here the Apostle distinguisheth these sinners from Adulterers, whom he mentioneth afterward.)

Nor such as either worship the Creature instead of God, or worship the true God before Images.

Nor such as being married persons break their Marriage-covenant, and commit uncleanness with such as are not their yoke-fellows.

Nor persons that give up themselves to lasciviousness, burning continually in lusts.

Nor such as are guilty of the sin of Sodom, a sin not to be named amongst Christians or men.

Marginal references: 1 Thess. 4.6.; 1 Cor. 15.[illegible: 1 letter]0. Gal. 5.21. Eph. 5.5. 1 Tim. 1.9. Heb. 12.14. Rev. [illegible: 1 letter]2.15.