Such were some of you, but God has washed you!

1 Cor. 6:9-11 “Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” 

These people “won't inherit the Kingdom of God”

This verse lists a few kinds of people who will not inherit the kingdom of God: wrongdoers, sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, men who have sex with men, those who practice homosexuality, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, slanderers, and swindlers! 

But, there is good news!

But there is hope for them! God has the power to change people, no matter what they have done orhow sinful they may be!

That's what some of your "were"

This same passage says something else truly remarkable! “Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.d.”

God has the power to change people!

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Cor. 5:17)

Therefore

“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” (Rom. 10:9-10)