I see that many misinterpret this to mean that we are not to associate with anyone who commits these crimes. But if you read it carefully you'll see that Paul is talking about our brothers, not the people who have note become our brothers. If we disassociate with everyone including the ones on the outside of our community than we keep the worldly sinner from accepting Jesus Christ and thus leaving the world behind and becoming our brother. It is our brother who returns to the world and the ways of sin that we are to no longer associate with, not that of the person whom we have not yet spoken to of the Good News.
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