1 Corinthians 5:1

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Summary

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.

Reported

1 Corinthians 1:11

Genesis 37:2

1 Samuel 2:24

Fornication

And

Jeremiah 2:33

Ezekiel 16:47

That one

General references

Leviticus 18:8

Leviticus 20:11

Deuteronomy 27:20

Bible References

Reported

For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them that are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father.

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people to transgress.

Fornication

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part'shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

And

How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing , thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.

That one

And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

In thee have they uncovered their fathers nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.

they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the'same maiden, to profane my holy name:

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

General references

The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.