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 1 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.

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

 3 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,

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

 5 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.

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

 7 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:

 8 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.

 9 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 idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

 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 God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
 
[1 Corinthians 4](/study/1-corinthians/4) [1 Corinthians 6](/study/1-corinthians/6)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
The apostle here giveth a reason of the question which he propounded in the former chapter, whether they would be willing that, when he came to them, he should come unto them with a rod? Because such horrid wickedness was committed amongst them, as he, being an apostle to whom Christ had intrusted the government of his church, could not pass over without correction: he instanceth here in one, which he calleth 

**fornication;**by which word is often in Scripture to be understood all species of uncleanness, though, in strict speaking, we by *fornication* understand the uncleanness of a single person, as by *adultery* we understand the uncleanness of a person married, and by *incest* the uncleanness of a person with some near relation, as a mother, a sister: in strict speaking, the sin here reflected on was incest; but the Scripture by this word comprehends all species of unlawful mixtures. 

**Such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles:** this sin he aggravates by saying, that the Gentiles by the light of nature discerned and declined such an abomination; by whom is not to be understood the more brutish part, but the more civilized part of the heathen, such as the Romans, &c. were. 

**That one should have his father’s wife:** by having *his father’s wife,*in this place, is not to be understood, the marrying of his father’s wife, his father being dead; but the using of his father’s wife as his wife while his father was yet alive, (as some judicious interpreters think), because hardly any nation would have endured a son openly to have married the widow of his father. And in [2 Corinthians 7:12](/kjv/2-corinthians/7/12), there is mention made not only of one *that had done,*but of another *that* had *suffered* the *wrong;*which latter must be the father himself: so as there was both incest and whoredom in this fact.

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