1 Corinthians 5:1

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles – a man, I hear, is living with his father’s wife!

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Instead of grieving over it and taking steps for the expulsion of the man who has done this thing, is it possible that you are still puffed up?

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Cross References

Genesis 35:22While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went and lay with his father’s concubine Bilhah and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Genesis 49:4Boiling over like water, you will not be first, For you climbed into my concubine’s the bed, you defiled your father’s couch.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:1

In this chapter the apostle, I. Blames them for their indulgence in the case of the incestuous person, and orders him to be excommunicated, and delivered to Satan, ver. 1-6 . II. He exhorts them to Christian purity, by purging out the old leaven, ver. 7, 8 . And, III. Directs them to shun even the common conversation of Christians who were guilty of any notorious and flagitious wickedness, ver. 9 to the end . Read the whole commentary →

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