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1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.

2And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

4in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ:

8wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

10not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:

11but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

12For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?

13But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

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Parallel translations · 1 Corinthians 5:1

WEB · World English Bible (2000)

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.

KJV · King James Version (1611)

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

ASV · American Standard Version (1901)

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.

BBE · Bible in Basic English (1949)

It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

YLT · Young's Literal Translation (1862)

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

DRA · Douay-Rheims (Challoner) (1752)

It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father's wife.

DBY · Darby Bible (1890)

It is universally reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — verses that illuminate 1 Corinthians 5:1.

  • Jeremiah 2:33

    How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:18

    Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

  • Revelation 21:8

    But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

  • 1 Corinthians 5:11

    but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

  • Leviticus 18:8

    The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover; it is thy father’s nakedness.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:12

    So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

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