1 Corinthians 5:1

Sin Purity

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

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?

³ Although 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.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
KJV: 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.
WEB: It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
ASV: It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father`s wife.
DARBY: It is universally reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
BLB: Sexual immorality is actually heard [of] among you⁺, and sexual immorality such as [is] not even among the nations, so as for one to have the wife of the father.

ÅB: I det hele høres det om hor iblant dere, og det slikt hor som ikke engang nevnes blant hedningene: at en holder seg til sin fars hustru.
OTB: Det blir faktisk rapportert at det er seksuell umoral blant dere, og seksuell umoral av en slik art som ikke engang finnes blant hedningene, nemlig at noen har sin fars kone.
B1930: I det hele høres det om hor iblandt eder, og det slikt hor som ikke engang nevnes blandt hedningene: at en holder sig til sin fars hustru.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
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Revelation 2:21
Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
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Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
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Leviticus 18:8
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
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Ephesians 5:3
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
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Galatians 5:19
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
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Acts 15:29
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
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1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
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