1 Corinthians · 13 verses
1 Corinthians 5
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A man is handed over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, rather oddly in the hope that his spirit may be saved.
Pride, grief, and the unwelcome remedyvv. 1–8
The offense is described as intolerable even among pagans: a man has his father’s wife. Yet the congregation is proud, when grief and removal were called for. Though absent in body, the writer declares himself present in spirit and gives the assembled congregation a severe sentence: hand the man over to Satan, with destruction of the flesh aimed—strangely and deliberately—at the saving of his spirit on the Day of the Lord. Their boasting is then compared with leaven, which has the tiresome habit of spreading through the whole batch. The old leaven must go; Christ is named as the sacrificed Passover lamb, and the feast is to be kept with sincerity and truth rather than malice and wickedness.
The boundary that would empty the worldvv. 9–13
The writer clarifies an earlier instruction not to associate with sexually immoral people. It was not meant to include everyone in the world who is sexually immoral, greedy, a swindler, or an idolater; that rule would require leaving the world altogether, which is a wonderfully impractical boundary. The restriction concerns anyone who claims to be a brother while living as a sexually immoral person, a greedy person, an idolater, a verbal abuser, a drunkard, or a swindler. Judgment of those outside is left to God; the congregation’s concern is within its own fellowship, ending with the blunt command to expel the wicked man.
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1 Cor 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
1 Cor 5:2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
1 Cor 5:3Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
1 Cor 5:4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
1 Cor 5:5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
1 Cor 5:7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
1 Cor 5:9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
1 Cor 5:10I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
1 Cor 5:11But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
1 Cor 5:12What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
1 Cor 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
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- 51 Timothy 1:20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
- 11Romans 16:17Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
- 71 Peter 1:19–20but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- 112 Thessalonians 3:14Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
- 112 Thessalonians 3:6Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.
- 7Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- 13Deuteronomy 17:7The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- 13Deuteronomy 13:5Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- 5Galatians 6:1–2Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
- 7Colossians 3:5–9Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 11Matthew 18:17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
- 5James 5:19–20My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
- 3Colossians 2:5For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
- 9Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- 111 Corinthians 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
- 5Job 2:6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
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