1 Corinthians 5:6-13 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:1-6

Here the apostle states the case; and, I. Lets them know what was the common or general report concerning them, that one of their community was guilty of fornication, 1 Cor. 5:1. It was told in all places, to their dishonour, and the reproach of Christians. And it was the more reproachful because it could not be denied. Note, The heinous sins of professed Christians are quickly noted and noised abroad. We should walk circumspectly, for many eyes are upon us, and many mouths will be opened... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:7-8

Here the apostle exhorts them to purity, by purging out the old leaven. In this observe, I. The advice itself, addressed either, 1. To the church in general; and so purging out the old leaven, that they might be a new lump, refers to the putting away from themselves that wicked person, 1 Cor. 5:13. Note, Christian churches should be pure and holy, and not bear such corrupt and scandalous members. They are to be unleavened, and should endure no such heterogeneous mixture to sour and corrupt... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

Here the apostle advises them to shun the company and converse of scandalous professors. Consider, I. The advice itself: I wrote to you in a letter not to company with fornicators, 1 Cor. 5:9. Some think this was an epistle written to them before, which is lost. Yet we have lost nothing by it, the Christian revelation being entire in those books of scripture which have come down to us, which are all that were intended by God for the general use of Christians, or he could and would in his... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:1-8

5:1-8 It is actually reported that there is unchastity among you, and unchastity so monstrous that it does not even exist among the heathen, unchastity the consequence of which is that a certain man has formed a union with his father's wife; and you have regarded the matter with inflated self-complacency and you have not--as you should have--regarded it with a grief so bitter that it would take steps to see that the perpetrator of this deed should be removed from your midst. Now I, absent in... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

5:9-13 In my letter I wrote to you not to associate with fornicators. You cannot altogether avoid associating with the fornicators of this world, or with those who are greedy and grasping for this world's goods, or with idolaters, for, in that case, you would have to withdraw entirely from the world. But, as things now are, I write to you not to associate or to eat with anyone who bears the name of brother, if he is a fornicator, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good ,.... Their glorying in their outward flourishing condition, in their riches and wealth, and in their ministers, in their wisdom and parts when under such an humbling dispensation; and especially if their glorying was in the sin itself, and their connivance at it, it was far from being good, it was very criminal, as the consequence of it was dangerous: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ? This, in nature, is what everybody knows; and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:7

Purge out therefore the old leaven ,.... Meaning either the incestuous person, whose crime might well be compared to sour "leaven", and be called old because of his long continuance in it; whom the apostle would have removed from them; this is properly the act of excommunication, which that church was to perform, as a quite distinct thing from what the apostle himself determined to do. The allusion is to the strict search the Jews made F7 Misn Pesachim, c. 1. sect. 1. 2. Maimon. Hilch.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast ,.... Not the feast of the passover, which was now ceased, though this is said in allusion to it; when the master of the house used to say F12 Haggada Shel Pesach, p. 4. Ed. Rittangel. , "everyone that is hungry, let him come and eat; he that hath need, let him come ויפסח , "and paschatize", or keep the feast of the passover:' but rather the feast of the Lord's supper is here meant, that feast of fat things Isaiah prophesied of; in which are the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote unto you in an epistle ,..... Not in this same epistle, and in 1 Corinthians 5:2 as some think; for what is here observed is not written in either of those verses, but in some other epistle he had sent them before, as is clear from 1 Corinthians 5:11 which either came not to hand, or else was neglected by them; and so what he here says may be considered as a reproof to them, for taking no notice of his advice; but continuing to show respect to the incestuous person, though he in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:10

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world ,.... By "the fornicators of this world" are meant, such as were guilty of this sin, who were the men of the world, mere worldly carnal men, who were never called out of it, or ever professed to be; in distinction from those that were in the church, that had committed this iniquity; and the apostle's sense is, that his former prohibition of keeping company with fornicators was not to be understood as referring to such persons as were, out... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:7-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:1-8

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:10

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