Inherit the Kingdom? Who knew? – Part 2

Inheriting the Kingdom

Recently (yesterday!) I blogged on Paul’s passage in Ephesian 5:5 about inheriting the kingdom, and it got me thinking about the other two passages in the New Testament that line out lifestyles that are restrictive to inheriting the Kingdom.

The three passages are as follows

Ephesians 5:5

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

1Corinthians 6:9 – 10

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, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Galations 5:19 – 21

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

I have this weakness, you see, of taking data and compiling it to compare information. This is my intent with this post. I simply offer a table showing the characteristics of those who will not inherit the kingdom.

A bit surprising, being in the religious culture of the American life!

Gk Strongs #	Greek Transliteration	KJV Translation	1 Cor 6:9-10	Gal 5:19-22	Eph 5:5
94	adikos	unrighteous	x
139	hairesis	heresies		x
167	akatharsia	uncleanness		x
169	akathartos	unclean person			x
727	harpax	extortioners	x
733	arsenokoitēs	abusers of themselves with mankind	x
766	aselgeia	lasciviousness		x
1370	dichostasia	seditions		x
1495	eidōlolatria	idolatry		x
1496	eidōlolatrēs	idolaters	x
1496	eidōlolatrēs	idolator			x
2052	eritheia	strife		x
2054	eris	variance		x
2189	echthra	hatred		x
2205	zēlos	emulations		x
2372	thymos	wrath		x
2812	kleptēs	theives	x
2970	kōmos	revellings		x
3060	loidoros	revilers	x
3120	malakos	effeminate	x
3178	methē	drunkeness		x
3183	methysos	drunkards	x
3430	moicheia	adultery		x
3432	moichos	adulterers	x
4123	pleonektēs	covetous	x
4123	pleonektēs	covetous man			x
4202	porneia	fornication		x
4205	pornos	fornicators	x
4205	pornos	whoremonger			x
5331	pharmakeia	witchcraft		x
5355	phthonos	envyings		x
5408	phonos	murders		x
		and such like		x