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

It is showed unto me, my brethren, of you by them that are of the house of Chloe; that there is strife among you.

And these are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and of Zilpah his father's wives. And he brought unto their father an evil saying that was of them.

Oh, nay my sons: For it is no good report that I hear how that ye make the LORD's people to trespass.

Fornication

but now I write unto you that ye company not together. If any that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a worshipper of images, either a railer, either a drunkard, or an extortioner: with him that is such see that ye eat not.

Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,

but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.

I fear lest when I come again, God bring me low among you, and I be constrained to bewail many of them which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and wantonness which they have committed.

The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness: but unto holiness.

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not.

But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

And

Why boastest thou thy ways so highly, to obtain favour therethrough, when thou hast yet stained them with blasphemies?

Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they.

That one

And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.

As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.

The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities.

If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.

No man shall take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's covering.

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

And so they pitched Absalom a tent upon the top of the house. And he went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

And when David was come to his house to Jerusalem, he took the ten wives his concubines that he had left behind him to keep the house, and put them in ward and ministered all things unto them: but lay no more with them. And so they were enclosed unto the day of the death of them, and lived a widow's life.

The sons of Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: for he was the eldest. But because he defied his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, and so he is not reckoned unto the birthright.

In thee have they discovered their fathers' shame, in thee have they vexed women in their sickness.

They tread upon poor men's heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the ways of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonour my holy name,

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that did hurt, neither for his cause that was hurt: but that our good mind which we have toward you in the sight of God, might appear unto you

General references

The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities.

If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.

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