For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
This ye know. 'Aleph (') A B Delta G f g. Vulgate, read х iste (G1510) ginooskontes (G1097) for este (G1510) ginooskontes (G1097)] 'this ye surely know:' you are aware, of your own knowledge, that.
Covetous ... idolater (Colossians 3:5). ['Aleph (') B G f g, Vulgate, read ho (G3739), which thing, for hos (G3739), who (A Delta), which is (in other words) an idolater.] Paul himself had forsaken all for Christ (2 Corinthians 6:10; 2 Corinthians 11:27). Covetousness is worship of the creature instead of the Creator-high treason against the King of kings (1 Samuel 15:23; Matthew 6:24; Philippians 3:19; 1 John 2:15).
Hath. The present implies fixed exclusion. It is a settled principle of God's moral government that such a one hath not.
Of Christ and of God - rather, as one Greek article includes both, 'of Christ and God,' implying their perfect oneness-consistent only with Christ being God (cf. 2 Thessalonians 1:12; 1 Timothy 5:21; 1 Timothy 6:13).