1 Corinthians 5:1 “It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and…”

1 Corinthians 5:1

It 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

American Standard Version

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father’s wife.

Geneva Bible 1599

It is heard certainely that there is fornication among you: and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles, that one should haue his fathers wife.

Darby Translation

It is universally reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

Young's Literal Translation

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations — as that one hath the wife of the father! —

Bible in Basic English

It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

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Cross references

“reported”

1 Corinthians 1:11 Genesis 37:2 1 Samuel 2:24

1 Corinthians 1:11 · BSB

My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.

Genesis 37:2 · BSB

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

1 Samuel 2:24 · BSB

No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.

“fornication”

Revelation 21:8 Revelation 2:21 Colossians 3:5 Ephesians 5:3 1 Corinthians 6:18 Acts 15:29

Revelation 21:8 · BSB

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

Revelation 2:21 · BSB

Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.

Colossians 3:5 · BSB

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Ephesians 5:3 · BSB

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

1 Corinthians 6:18 · BSB

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Acts 15:29 · BSB

You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

“and”

Jeremiah 2:33 Ezekiel 16:47 Ezekiel 16:51 Ezekiel 16:52

Jeremiah 2:33 · BSB

How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

Ezekiel 16:47 · BSB

And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

Ezekiel 16:51 · BSB

Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.

Ezekiel 16:52 · BSB

So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgra…

“that one”

Leviticus 18:8 Deuteronomy 22:30 Deuteronomy 27:20 Amos 2:7 2 Corinthians 7:12 Genesis 35:22

Leviticus 18:8 · BSB

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

Deuteronomy 22:30 · BSB

A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.

Deuteronomy 27:20 · BSB

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Amos 2:7 · BSB

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

2 Corinthians 7:12 · BSB

So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.

Genesis 35:22 · BSB

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

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