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1 Cor. 5:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, thatg one should have his father’s wife.

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Deut. 27:20• ²⁰Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; for he uncovereth his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:20)

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1-5: The incestuous person,

6: is cause rather of shame unto them than of rejoicing.

7-9: The old leaven is to be purged out.

10-13: Hienous offenders are to be shamed and avoided.

reported.

1 Cor. 1:11• ¹¹For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you. (1 Cor. 1:11)

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Gen. 37:2• ²These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them. (Gen. 37:2)

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1 Sam. 2:24• ²⁴No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress. (1 Sam. 2:24)

fornication.

1 Cor. 5:11• ¹¹But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:11)

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1 Cor. 6:9,13,18• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:9,13,18)

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Acts 15:20,29• ²⁰but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
²⁹to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell. (Acts 15:20,29)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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Gal. 5:19• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, (Gal. 5:19)

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Eph. 5:3• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints; (Eph. 5:3)

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Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry. (Col. 3:5)

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1 Thess. 4:7• ⁷For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. (1 Thess. 4:7)

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Rev. 2:21• ²¹And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication. (Rev. 2:21)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Jer. 2:33• ³³How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness. (Jer. 2:33)

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Ezek. 16:47,51‑52• ⁴⁷And thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but as though that were a very little, thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
⁵¹And Samaria hath not sinned according to the half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done.
⁵²Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own confusion, because of thy sins in which thou hast acted more abominably than they: they are more righteous than thou. So be thou ashamed also, and bear thy confusion, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. (Ezek. 16:47,51‑52)

that one.

Gen. 35:22• ²²And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve. (Gen. 35:22)

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Gen. 49:4• ⁴Impetuous as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my bed. (Gen. 49:4)

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Lev. 18:8• ⁸The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. (Lev. 18:8)

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Lev. 20:11• ¹¹And a man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Lev. 20:11)

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Deut. 22:30• ³⁰A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt. (Deut. 22:30)

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Deut. 27:20• ²⁰Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; for he uncovereth his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:20)

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2 Sam. 16:22• ²²So they spread a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. (2 Sam. 16:22)

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2 Sam. 20:3• ³And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood. (2 Sam. 20:3)

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1 Chron. 5:1• ¹And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; but the genealogy is not registered according to the birthright, (1 Chron. 5:1)

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Ezek. 22:10• ¹⁰in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation. (Ezek. 22:10)

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Amos 2:7• ⁷panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name. (Amos 2:7)

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2 Cor. 7:12• ¹²So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God. (2 Cor. 7:12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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It is universally reportedd 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.

JND Translation Notes

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This does not quite give the sense. It was the reputation they had by common report.

W. Kelly Translation

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Universal report is of fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not evena among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

WK Translation Notes

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The received reading "is named" ought to be omitted according to the best authorities.