God will not allow into His family and kingdom anyone who compromises His law. Death is the penalty for breaking it, and the whole world suffers under the curse of sin, which spreads like leaven if it is not removed. First Corinthians 6:9-10 warns that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, naming fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, thieves, the covetous, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners, and this speaks specifically of breaking God's law. Revelation 22:14 says that those who do His commandments have the right to the tree of life and entry into the city, while dogs, sorcerers, the sexually immoral, murderers, idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie remain outside. Anyone who expects to be in the Kingdom must keep the law, because the law admits no one until he is perfectly conformed to it. No human has kept it perfectly, and no one can by works, since works cannot change the nature. Christ bore the law's penalty and fulfills its righteous requirement in those who walk by the Spirit. Through faith in Him and God's work in believers, a new nature that loves the law is formed and grows until it replaces the corruption of human nature. At the resurrection every believer will be perfectly holy, refined as pure gold, and God's commands will be his own will and joy.

Those who practice unrighteousness will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Ephesians 5:3-5 says no fornicator, unclean person, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 says the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God, and it names fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, sodomites, thieves, the covetous, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners. Those who want the inheritance will therefore not do these things. God holds the inheritance out as a motivation, appealing to the human desire for wealth and power, provided it can be administered and used in the right way. The inheritance is real and awesome, shared with Christ's brothers and sisters when the saints are resurrected into the Kingdom. It is incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading, reserved for those kept by God's power through faith. It comes through Christ's blood and the new covenant to those who are called and sanctified. Because it is so valuable, believers must be sure they are working toward it and must serve the Lord heartily, knowing that the reward of the inheritance comes from Him.

Those who practice unrighteousness will not inherit the kingdom of God. Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, thieves, covetous people, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners are excluded, and the unrepentant face the lake of fire, the second death, and exclusion from the holy city (I Corinthians 6:9-10; Revelation 21:7-8; 22:15). Sins that spring from human carnality are not second-class sins. Carnality is a pull toward self-satisfaction in spite of God's Word, so following it is idolatry, and it generates death as surely as murder or adultery. Adam and Eve's choice to follow their desires rather than God's instruction led to the wickedness that brought the Flood, which shows how deadly carnality is. Converted people are justified and sanctified, yet carnality still resides in them and influences their decisions, so they can still be drawn into sin. Only those who overcome inherit all things. Overcoming requires the gifts God gives at conversion, especially faith, which breaks through the hardness of the heart. Jesus told Nicodemus that unless one is born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot see or enter the kingdom of God. Only those God calls can overcome and be saved, and God expects them to use His gifts to bring carnality under control through obedience.