Chapter Summary
Read 1 Corinthians Chapter 5 in full above. This chapter is part of the book of 1 Corinthians and continues the narrative, teachings, or poetry found throughout this biblical text.
1 Corinthians Chapter 5
Chapter 5 of 1 Corinthians from the Holy Bible
Verses
1 Corinthians 5:1
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.
1 Corinthians 5:2
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Corinthians 5:3
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
1 Corinthians 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 5:5
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:9
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1 Corinthians 5:10
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1 Corinthians 5:12
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
1 Corinthians 5:13
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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1 Corinthians Chapter 5 is part of the book of 1 Corinthians in the book of Revelation (Apocalyptic Literature). This chapter contains 13 verses. Read the full text above to study its message in context with the surrounding chapters.
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