³ Paul says do not associate in friendship with any person who calls themselves a Christian, who practices sexual immorality, is covetous, an idolater, a railer, a drunkard, or a scammerr. From George Fox's Letter on Covetousness:

So the apostle here does not speak of the fornicators, and covetous idolaters,* and scammers of the world, who were outside the church; for God judges such. But the saints, the apostles, and the true church were to judge those who practiced such things within the church, showing the true christian's church had a power; and not to keep company nor to eat with such, professing Christ, that were of such practices, knowing that the unrighteous should not inherit the kingdom of God, nor drunkards, nor fornicators [sexually immoral], thieves, railers [verbally abusive], extortionists, nor covetous idolaters; they that lived in these evils, were not like to inherit the kingdom of God; for they were defiled, unwashed, and not sanctified nor justified, etc. So that if the saints did keep company, or did eat with such unwashed, unsanctified, unjustified persons, or have fellowship with them, they took the members of Christ and joined them to an harlot; for he that is joined to an harlot, is one body; ‘for two,’ said he, ‘shall be one flesh.’

* Paul has defined covetousness as idolatry. Whatever we want or value, we worship, and how one spends their free time defines their devotion. An idolater is someone who values anything equal to or greater than God. This could be possessions, pastimes, pleasures, friends, etc.

And if you are not even to eat with such Christians who are practicing such sin, then do you think you are allowed to fellowship with them in the name of the Lord?

Not that you are already so pure, and others are not; no, it is the difference in obligation, hope, and faith that separates us, until we are purified. By your disassociating yourself in hopes of becoming pure, you may eventually be able to help them; greater love has no man than he who lays down his life for his friends. The people in the deficit sects, however well-intentioned they are, believe they are justified in continuing in sin — and that Jesus does not want them to become pure, and furthermore that Jesus cannot purify them — they are unbelievers in the true Jesus, the true hope, and the true faith: what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? They only have the hope of the hypocrite, which will not be realized.

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