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 has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

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

Fornication

But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat.

Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication.

But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

And

How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.

And thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but as though that were a very little, thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.

That one

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

Impetuous as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my bed.

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

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

A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; for he uncovereth his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen.

So they spread a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to 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, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; but the genealogy is not registered according to the birthright,

in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation.

panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.

So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

General references

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

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

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; for he uncovereth his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen.