1 Corinthians 5
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1 Corinthians 7:33-8:4 in Papyrus 15, written in the 3rd century.
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| Book | First Epistle to the Corinthians |
| Bible part | New Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 7 |
| Category | Pauline epistles |
1 Corinthians 5 is the fifth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus. In this short chapter, Paul deals with an issue of sexual immorality in the Corinthian church.
The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:
The Pulpit Commentary also divides the chapter into two parts:
"The censure of the party-divisions [addressed in the previous chapters] is concluded", and Paul moves on without transition to a "widely" or "universally" reported issue of a member of the Corinthian church living with his father's wife and the church failing to remove this man from their fellowship. Paul criticises the church for its arrogance in not taking action, which might have been due to the factional nature of the church or to a false understanding of Christian liberty.
Their glorying in their outward flourishing condition, in their riches and wealth, and in their ministers, in their wisdom and parts when under such an humbling dispensation; and especially if their glorying was in the sin itself, and their connivance at it, it was far from being good, it was very criminal, as the consequence of it was dangerous.
This, in nature, is what everybody knows; and the proverb, which is much used by the Jews, was common in the mouths of all, and the meaning of it easy to be understood: thus, whether applied to the leaven of false doctrine, nothing is more manifest, than when this is let alone, and a stop is not put to it, it increases to more ungodliness; or to vice and immorality, as here; which if not taken notice of by a church, is not faithfully reproved and severely censured, as the case requires, will endanger the whole community; it may spread by example, and, under the connivance of the church, to the corrupting of good manners, and infecting of many.
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