1 Corinthians 5 — Sexual wrongdoing and the community's discipline — Greek text and reception
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1 Corinthians 5 — Sexual wrongdoing and the community's discipline
The reported offense and Paul's judgment
Verse 5:1
Greek–English Translation
Sexual immorality is actually reported among you, and such sexual immorality as does not occur even among the Gentiles: that someone has his father's wife.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Father's wife is retained without deciding that she is the man's biological mother. The selected sentence has no additional is named verb in the Gentile comparison; English supplies occurs for its elliptical construction.
Verse 5:2
Greek–English Translation
And you are puffed up! Should you not instead have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from your midst?
Textual and Reception Notes
Verse 5:3
Greek–English Translation
For though absent in body but present in spirit, I have already decided concerning the one who did this in such a way, as though I were present,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The sentence's decision culminates in to hand over at 5:5. Paul's spirit is explicit again in 5:4 and is not rendered as the Holy Spirit.
Verse 5:4
Greek–English Translation
in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you and my spirit are gathered, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The name phrase can be attached to Paul's judgment, the assembly, or the handing over in the extended construction. Both occurrences of our Lord Jesus are retained without an added Christ.
Verse 5:5
Greek–English Translation
to hand such a person over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Destruction of the flesh and salvation of the spirit are both explicit; whether flesh refers principally to bodily affliction or sinful conduct remains an interpretive question. The selected final title is the Lord, without an added Jesus or our.
Variant [SBL-1COR-APP 5:5]: The apparatus gives Lord in WH and NA28, and Lord Jesus in Treg and RP.
Christ our Passover and the unleavened feast
Verse 5:6
Greek–English Translation
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
Textual and Reception Notes
Verse 5:7
Greek–English Translation
Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Our Passover is the source's designation; lamb is not an explicit noun here. The command to become a new lump stands beside the assertion that they are unleavened.
Verse 5:8
Greek–English Translation
So let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Textual and Reception Notes
Distinguishing the community from those outside
Verse 5:9
Greek–English Translation
I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The letter is Paul's own reference to prior correspondence; no surviving letter or reconstructed contents are identified.
Verse 5:10
Greek–English Translation
not at all meaning the sexually immoral people of this world, or the greedy and grasping, or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The Greek pairs the greedy and grasping with and. The clarification excludes a command to withdraw from all contact with the surrounding world.
Verse 5:11
Greek–English Translation
But now I have written to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral or greedy or an idolater or abusive or a drunkard or grasping—not even to eat with such a person.
Textual and Reception Notes
Verse 5:12
Greek–English Translation
For what have I to do with judging those outside? Do you not judge those inside,
Textual and Reception Notes
Verse 5:13
Greek–English Translation
while God judges those outside? Remove the wicked person from among yourselves.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The selected punctuation carries the inside/outside question across 5:12–13. Judges is the present form; the closing imperative addresses the community's own membership.
Variant [SBL-1COR-APP 5:13]: The apparatus distinguishes present krinei in WH and Treg from the differently accented future in NA28 and RP.
NA28: future κρινεῖ, "God will judge" (SBLGNT present κρίνει); the rendering above follows SBLGNT; NA28 would read "God will judge those outside".