1 Corinthians 5:2

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

3I for my part, present with you in spirit although absent in body, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has so acted.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:18But some of you have been puffed up through getting the idea that I am not coming to Corinth.

1 Corinthians 5:13while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? Remove 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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