1 Corinthians 5:1

Fornication is commonly reported among you; and such fornication as is not heard among the Heathens, that the son should take the wife of his father.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

2And you are inflated; but should you not rather sit in grief that he who hath wrought this work might be put away from you?

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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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