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1 Corinthians 5

1Co 5:1—Part III. Immorality rebuked, discipline enjoined (1Co 5:1-1Co 6:8).

1Co 5:1 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.

reported

actually reported.

should have

of you hath.


1Co 5:2-13—Indifference to evil in the church the result of divisions.

1Co 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

ye are puffed up

What contempt this pours upon the divisions among the Corinthians: "Apollonians," and "Paulinians," and "Cephasites," all alike indifferent to this instance of gross sin!

1Co 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

To deliver such an one unto Satan

Judgments (the seven). 1Co 6:2-3. (2Sa 7:14; Rev 22:12).

Satan

Satan. 1Co 7:5. (Gen 3:1; Rev 20:10.)

destruction

Greek olethros, used elsewhere, 1Th 5:3; 2Th 1:9; 1Ti 6:9, never means annihilation.

saved

Scofield Romans 1:16, note.

Jesus

Some ancient authorities omit Jesus.

1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

sacrificed

Sacrifice (of Christ). 1Co 11:25. (Gen 4:4; Heb 10:18.)

1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

leaven

Leaven. 1Co 5:6-8; Gal 5:9. (Gen 19:3; Mat 13:33.)

1Co 5:10 Yet 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.

world

kosmos = man-kind. Scofield Matthew 4:8, note.

1Co 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

that are without

Mar 4:11.

1Co 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

put away from among yourselves

Separation. 1Co 5:1-2, 9-13; 10:20-21. (Gen 12:1; 2 Cor 6:14-17.)

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