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1 Corinthians 5:1

“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the nations, that someone has his father’s wife.”

1 Corinthians 5:1 · direct translation from the Greek
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Theme · Leviticus 18:8

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Paul speaks of someone who has “his father’s wife”; Leviticus 18:8 forbids it (also Deuteronomy 22:30).

The same term appears in both passages.

  • γυναῖκάgynaikaG1135אֵשֶׁתeshetH802“woman, wife”
  • πατρὸςpatrosG3962אָבִיaviH1“father”

1 Corinthians 5:1, word by word

It is actuallyὍλωςHolōs

at all, actually

Altogether, actually; with a negative, not at all.

Where else “Holōs” appears
reportedἀκούεταιakouetai

hear of

To hear about something.

Where else “akouetai” appears
sexual immoralityπορνείαporneia

sexual immorality

Having sex outside marriage.

Where else “porneia” appears
suchτοιαύτηtoiautē

such

Such, of this kind.

Where else “toiautē” appears
the nationsἔθνεσινethnesin

Gentile

The peoples who are not Israel.

Where else “ethnesin” appears
thatὥστεhōste

so that

So much that, to the point that.

Where else “hōste” appears
hasἔχεινechein

have

To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.

Where else “echein” appears
his father’sπατρὸςpatros

parents

A family's father; sometimes father and mother.

Where else “patros” appears
wifeγυναῖκάgynaika

wife

A married woman, joined to her husband.

Where else “gynaika” appears

Translation note

His father’s wife: his stepmother; compare Leviticus 18:8.

The context

1 · This verse (above)

2And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

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