1 Corinthians 5:2 “And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief…”

1 Corinthians 5:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

World English Bible

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

American Standard Version

And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye are puffed vp and haue not rather sorowed, that he which hath done this deede, might be put from among you.

Darby Translation

And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

Young's Literal Translation

and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

Bible in Basic English

And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

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Cross references

“ye are”

1 Corinthians 4:6–8 1 Corinthians 4:18 1 Corinthians 5:6

1 Corinthians 4:6–8 · BSB

Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.

1 Corinthians 4:18 · BSB

Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 5:6 · BSB

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

“mourned”

2 Corinthians 12:21 Numbers 25:6 2 Kings 22:19 Ezra 9:2–6 Ezra 10:1–6 Psalm 119:136

2 Corinthians 12:21 · BSB

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

Numbers 25:6 · BSB

Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

2 Kings 22:19 · BSB

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn you…

Ezra 9:2–6 · BSB

Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in thi…

Ezra 10:1–6 · BSB

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

Psalm 119:136 · BSB

My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

“might”

Revelation 2:20–22 1 Corinthians 5:13 1 Corinthians 5:5 1 Corinthians 5:7

Revelation 2:20–22 · BSB

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

1 Corinthians 5:13 · BSB

God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

1 Corinthians 5:5 · BSB

hand 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 Corinthians 5:7 · BSB

Get 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.

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

In context

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.

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.

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