1 It is absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father’s wife. 2 And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed. 3 I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus; 5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump? 7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. 10 I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols; otherwise you must needs go out of this world. 11 But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within? 13 For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.
1 Corinthians · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
1 Corinthians 5 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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- 1 Revelation 21:8; Revelation 2:21; Colossians 3:5; Leviticus 18:8; Ephesians 5:3
- 2 Revelation 2:20–22; 2 Corinthians 7:7–11; 1 Corinthians 5:13; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Ezra 10:1–6
- 3 Colossians 2:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 13:2; 2 Corinthians 10:11; 2 Corinthians 10:1
- 4 John 20:23; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Colossians 3:17; Matthew 18:16–18; Matthew 16:19
- 5 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:14–15; Galatians 6:1–2; James 5:19–20; Job 2:6
- 6 Galatians 5:9; 1 Corinthians 15:33; James 4:16; 1 Corinthians 5:2; Luke 13:21
- 7 1 Peter 1:19–20; Ephesians 4:22; Colossians 3:5–9; John 1:29; Exodus 12:15
- 8 1 Peter 2:1–2; Deuteronomy 16:3; Exodus 12:15; Luke 12:1; Matthew 16:6
- 9 Ephesians 5:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:14; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Proverbs 9:6
- 10 1 Corinthians 10:27; John 17:15–16; John 8:23; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Corinthians 1:20
- 11 Romans 16:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:14; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Matthew 18:17; 1 Corinthians 5:13
- 12 Mark 4:11; 1 Timothy 3:7; Luke 12:14; 1 Corinthians 5:3–5; 1 Corinthians 6:1–5
- 13 Deuteronomy 17:7; Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 21:21; Matthew 18:17; Deuteronomy 22:24
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When he was discoursing about their divisions, he did not indeed at once address them vehemently, but more gently at first; and afterwards, he ended in accusation, saying thus, (c.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
And we have the precept: "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 go not to eat." And again does the apostle say, "Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath …
… Master, whom he thought a man, and nothing more, tell him (but He is "good" because He is God)--let Him tell him, that if he would "enter into life" he must "keep the commandments;" let him banish from himself the bitterness of malice and wickedness; let him not kill, nor commit adultery, nor steal, nor bear false witness; that the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… away, or receive more glorious crowns, if the amount of our sins be not so great: hear what Paul says concerning him that had committed fornication, "Deliver ye such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved." "But what is this?" you may say, "for the discourse was about them that were …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… confirmed by the fact that the Apostle uses either word indifferently,--saying at one time "in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God;" at another "when ye are gathered together, and my Spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus," with no idea that it makes any difference to the connexion of the names whether …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)