1 Corinthians 5:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, came tending the flock with his brothers. And he was a youth 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. You make Jehovah's people to transgress.

Fornication

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

but that we write to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

lest in my coming again my God will humble me with you; and I shall mourn many who have already sinned, and not repenting over the uncleanness, and fornication, and lustfulness which they have practiced.

Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,

For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

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

And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent.

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

And

Why did you trim your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught the evil women your ways.

Yet you have not walked according to their ways, nor done according to their hateful deeds; but, as if it were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they were in all your ways.

That one

And it happened when Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife. It is your father's nakedness.

And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be on them.

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

Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house, 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, his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them but did not go in to them. And they were shut up till 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 since he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and the genealogy is not to be counted according to the birthright;

In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you they have humbled her defiled by impurity.

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 to the same woman, to defile My holy name.

Then, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered wrong, but for the sake of revealing our earnestness on your behalf, for you before God.

General references

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife. It is your father's nakedness.

And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be on them.

Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.