1 Corinthians 5:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

It is commonly reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife.

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  • Deut 22:30 : 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.
  • Lev 18:8 : 8 The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover: it is your father's nakedness.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 But that we write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
  • Gal 5:19 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
  • Eph 5:3 : 3 But sexual immorality, and all impurity, or greed, let it not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints;
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Therefore, put to death your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  • 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
  • Rev 2:21 : 21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
  • Deut 27:20 : 20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's bed. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear; you make the LORD's people transgress.
  • 2 Sam 16:22 : 22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 20:3 : 3 And David returned to his house in Jerusalem, and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to keep the house and put them in confinement. He provided for them but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows.
  • 1 Chr 5:1 : 1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. He was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned according to the birthright.
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 Why do you beautify your way to seek love? therefore you have also taught the wicked ones your ways.
  • Ezek 16:47 : 47 Yet you have not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
  • Ezek 16:51-52 : 51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done. 52 You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more abominable than they; they are more righteous than you; yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
  • Ezek 22:10 : 10 In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you they have humbled her who was set apart for impurity.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:
  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 Therefore, though I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.
  • Lev 20:11 : 11 And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 And it came to pass, when Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
  • Gen 37:2 : 2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought their evil report to their father.
  • Gen 49:4 : 4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it: he went up to my couch.
  • 1 Cor 1:11 : 11 For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

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  • 1 Cor 5:2-3
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    2And you are arrogant, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.

    3For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has done this deed, as though I were present.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-12
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    9I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

    10Yet not entirely with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the greedy, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

    11But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

    12For what do I have to do with judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

  • Eph 5:3
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    3But sexual immorality, and all impurity, or greed, let it not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints;

  • Gal 5:19
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    19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

  • Ezek 22:10-11
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    10In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you they have humbled her who was set apart for impurity.

    11One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Lev 18:7-8
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    7The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

    8The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover: it is your father's nakedness.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

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    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

  • Eph 5:5
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    5For this you know, that no sexually immoral, unclean, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

  • Lev 20:11
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    11And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

  • Num 5:12-13
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    12Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,

    13And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;

  • Lev 18:11-12
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    11The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

    12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

    4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

    5Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

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    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10For fornicators, for those who defile themselves with mankind, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

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    4Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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    5Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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    20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

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    20Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's bed. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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    14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.

    15You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

    16You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

    17You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

  • 1 Cor 6:8-9
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    8No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.

    9Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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    4Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

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    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Matt 5:27
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    27You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery:'

  • Col 3:5
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    5Therefore, put to death your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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    5I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one who shall be able to judge between his brethren?

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    11But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

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  • Lev 18:20
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    20Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

  • Lev 20:19
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    19And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister, for he uncovers his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

  • Lev 20:14
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    14And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

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    31And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us in the manner of all the earth.