1 That they have winked at him who committed incest with his mother-in-law, 2, 6 he showeth should cause them rather to be ashamed, than to rejoice: 10 Such kind of wickedness is to be punished with excommunication,  12 lest others be infected with it.

It [a]is heard certainly that there is fornication among you: and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

[b]And ye are puffed up, and have not rather sorrowed, that he which hath done this deed, might be put from among you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:1 They are greatly to be reprehended which by suffering of wickedness, set forth the Church of God to be mocked and scorned as the infidels.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:2 There are none more proud, than they that least know themselves.

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