Self-interpreting Bible
1 Corinthians 5
1Paul reproveth a scandalous incest committed and protected from censure in the church at Corinth; 3and by his authority in Christ excommunicateth the offender. 6The necessity of purging out the old leaven. 9Christians guilty of notorious crimes are not to be consorted with.
1 IT is reported commonly that there is afornication among you, and bsuch fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his cfather's wife.
2 dAnd ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 eFor I *verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have 1judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4 fIn the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, gwith the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- f: Mat. 16:19 , Mat. 18:18 , Mat. 28:18 , Jn. 20:23 , 2Co. 2:9 , 2Co. 2:10
- g: 2Co. 13:3 , 2Co. 13:10
5 hTo deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in ithe day of the Lord Jesus.
6 jYour glorying is not good. Know ye not that ka little *leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 lPurge out therefore the old *leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. mFor even Christ our passover 2is sacrificed for us:
- l: 1Co. 5:5 , 1Co. 5:13 , Ep. 4:22 , Col. 3:5 , Col. 3:9 , Col. 3:10 , Ex. 12:15 , Ex. 13:6 , Ex. 13:7
- *: leaven-yeast, fermented dough.
- m: Ex. 12:5 , Ex. 12:6 , De. 16:2 , Is. 53:7 , Is. 53:10 , Jn. 1:29 , Jn. 1:36 , Jn. 19:36 , Ac. 8:32 , Ac. 8:35 , 1Co. 15:3 , 1Co. 15:4 , 1Pe. 1:19 , 1Pe. 1:20 , Re. 5:6 , Re. 5:9 , Re. 5:12
- 2: Or, is slain.
8 Therefore let us keep 3the feast, nnot with old *leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
- 3: Or, holy day.
- n: Ex. 12:15 , Ex. 13:6 , Deuteronomy 16 , Le. 23:6 , Mat. 16:12 , Ja. 1:21 , 1Pe. 2:1 , 1Pe. 2:2
- *: leaven-yeast, fermented dough.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle onot to company with fornicators:
10 pYet 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.
11 But now I have written unto you qnot 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.
- q: Ps. 101:5 , Mat. 18:15 - 17 , Ro. 16:17 , 2Th. 3:6 , 2Th. 3:14 , 2Jn. vs. 10
- *: railer-abusive person.
12 For what have I to do to judge rthem also that are *without? do not ye judge sthem that are within?
13 But them that are *without tGod judgeth. Therefore uput away from among yourselves that wicked person.
- *: without-outside.
- t: Ex. 20:7 , He. 13:4
- u: De. 13:5 , De. 13:7 , De. 17:7 , De. 21:21 , De. 22:21 - 24 , Nu. 5:2 , Mat. 18:17