1 Corinthians 5:2

Translations

Modern

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

Traditional

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

Literal

And you are puffed up! And did you not rather mourn, so that the one having done this work might be removed out of your midst?

Latin

Et vos inflati estis: et non magis luctum habuistis ut tollatur de medio vestrum qui hoc opus fecit.

Original

Greek

English

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

Notes

1 Corinthians 5:2

The Corinthian Christians were proud (see 1 Corinthians 4:8, 10, 18; 5:6), but they should have felt sorrow and shame for the sin among them.
have removed from your fellowship the man: This instruction suggests that the man ignored their requests, or that such obvious sin needed immediate discipline (compare Matthew 18:15–18).

1 Corinthians 5:1–8

Paul addresses sexual immorality in the church and tells the Christians to remove an unashamed wrongdoer from fellowship.

Theme notes and profiles

Corinth Paul (Saul) Family, Community, and Sexual Sin God or Satan?

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