Saturday, June 22, 2024

I Corinthians 5 (Reading through the Bible)

 
 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.

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

(We should be grieved that such things would take place in the church itself.  Rather than be "puffed up" we should grieve.  It will not help to counsel that born again person for he knows better by being given by God a new heart and a new spirit.) 

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 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.

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

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:

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.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
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.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

(Notice "railer" is a sin like "fornicator"  so you must put away that person from the church group.)

Railer is defined as: A reproachful man; a man of coarse, harsh, and bitter words; a man who speaks in such a way to abuse others, vilify their character, and wound their feelings; one who strikes out verbally at others)

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
 
13 But them that are without (the church) God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

(We must judge those who are called a brother by putting him out of the church group.)

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