1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

In Context

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not even named among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

3Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

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Cross References

2 Kings 22:19because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

Ezra 10:1While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

Jeremiah 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Ezekiel 9:6Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.

1 Corinthians 4:18Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:2-7

A Case of Gross Criminality; Christian Purity. ( a. d. 57.) 1 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. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of… Read the whole commentary →

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