1 Corinthians 5 - Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)

The Need for Church Discipline and Personal Sanctification

5 It is actually[a] reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and it is a kind of sexual immorality that not even the Gentiles practice: A man has his father’s wife! 2 Yet you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been filled with sorrow so that the man who did this deed would be removed from among you? 3 Even though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and as one who is present, I have already decided about the man who has done such a thing. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit is there, along with the power of our Lord Jesus,[b] 5 hand such a man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus.[c]

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Purge out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, just as you are unleavened. For our Passover lamb has been sacrificed, namely, Christ! 8 So let us keep celebrating the festival, not with old yeast, not with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 When I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with the sexually immoral, 10 I did not at all mean the sexually immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. 11 But in this situation, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. 12 For what business is it of mine to judge people outside the church? Do you not judge those inside? 13 God will judge the people outside the church. “Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.”[d]

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:1 Or widely
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:4 Some witnesses to the text add Christ.
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Some witnesses to the text add Christ.
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7

You Might Also Like:

1 Corinthians 5 - Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

5 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! -- 2 and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work, 3 for I indeed, as being ...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - Wycliffe Bible (WYC)

5 Yet all manner of fornication is heard among you, and such fornication, which is not among heathen men, so that some man have the wife of his father [so that one man have the wife of his father]. 2 And ye be swollen with pride [And ye be blown with pride], and not more had wailing, that he that d...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - Worldwide English (New Testament) (WE)

5 I have heard a very bad report about you. I hear there are wrong sexual ways among you. Even the people who are not Jews do not allow wrong sex such as this among them. A man is living with his father's wife! 2 Can it be that you are still proud? This should make you very sad. The man who has done...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - World English Bible (WEB)

5 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. 2 You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you. 3 For I most certai...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - The Voice (VOICE)

5 Because of my deep love for you, I must express my concern about the report brought to me regarding the lewd and immoral behavior exhibited in your community. This scandal has come to my attention because this kind of thing is unheard of even among the outsiders around us: I understand a man is ha...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - Tree of Life Version (TLV)

Removing the “Hametz” from Your House5 It is actually reported that among you there is sexual immorality, and such immorality as is not even among the pagans—that someone has his father’s wife. 2 And you are puffed up! Shouldn’t you have mourned instead, so that the one who did this deed might be r...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church5 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - Revised Geneva Translation (RGT)

5 It is heard certainly that there is sexual immorality among you - and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles - that one should have his father’s wife. 2 And you are puffed up, and moreover have not mourned, that the one who has done this deed might be taken from among you. 3 For i...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - New Testament for Everyone (NTE)

Scandal and Judgment5 Everybody’s talking about the sex scandal that’s going on in your community, not least because it’s a kind of immorality that even the pagans don’t practise! Well I never – a man taking his father’s wife! 2 And you’re puffed up! Why aren’t you in mourning? Why aren’t you getti...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and the sort of sexual immorality that is not found even among gentiles, for a man is living with his father’s wife.(A)2 And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who ha...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - New Matthew Bible (NMB)

How Paul curses the man who committed fornication with his stepmother. 5 There is a report abroad that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles: that a man should have his father’s wife. 2 And you swell, and have not rather sorrowed, so that he wh...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - New Living Translation (NLT)

Paul Condemns Spiritual Pride5 I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.[a] 2 You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and s...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - New Life Version (NLV)

Sin in the Church5 Someone has told me about a sex sin among you. It is so bad that even the people who do not know God would not do it. I have been told that one of the men is living with his father’s wife as if she were his wife. 2 Instead of being sorry, you are proud of yourselves. The man who ...
Read More

1 Corinthians 5 - New King James Version (NKJV)

Immorality Defiles the Church5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even [a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s (A)wife! 2 (B)And you are [b]puffed up, and have not rather (C)mourned, that he who has done this deed ...
Read More