1 Corinthians 5:2

Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

Montgomery New Testament

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 immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen - that a man has taken his father’s wife!

3For I, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 5:13Expel that 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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