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1 Corinthians 5:1
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1 Corinthians 5:1
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Don’t Let Your People Live in Sin
5 I don’t want to believe what I am hearing—that there is sexual sin among you. And it is such a bad kind of sexual sin that even those who have never known God don’t allow it. People say that a man there has his father’s wife.
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1 Corinthians 5:1
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1 Corinthians 5:1
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Dealing With a Case of Incest
5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.(A)
1 Corinthians 5:5
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1 Corinthians 5:5
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5 Then turn this man over to Satan. His sinful self[a] has to be destroyed so that his spirit will be saved on the day when the Lord comes again.
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- 1 Corinthians 5:5 sinful self Or “body.” Literally, “flesh.”
1 Corinthians 5:5
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1 Corinthians 5:5
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5 hand this man over(A) to Satan(B) for the destruction of the flesh,[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.(C)
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 5:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or of his body
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