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1 Corinthians 5:2

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Corinthians 5:2 · King James Version
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  • WEB You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
  • BSB And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
  • NKJV And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
  • NASB You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
  • NLT You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship.

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Quick answer

Instead of mourning and removing the offender, the church remained arrogant. It matters because sin in the body should grieve us and move us to act, not be ignored.

Overview

The Corinthians' inflated pride is exposed as morally bankrupt: they should have grieved over the sin and put the unrepentant man out of fellowship. Paul links arrogance with a failure to take sin seriously. Genuine love for Christ and the offender's soul calls the church to godly sorrow and corrective discipline, not complacency.

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Cross-references · 15

  • Rev 2:20–22Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
  • 2 Cor 7:7–11And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
  • 2 Cor 12:21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
  • 1 Cor 5:13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
  • Ezra 10:1–6Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
  • Ps 119:136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
  • Ezek 9:4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
  • Num 25:6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • Ezra 9:2–6For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
  • 2 Kgs 22:19Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
  • 1 Cor 4:6–8And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
  • Ezek 9:6Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
  • 1 Cor 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
  • 1 Cor 5:5–7To 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.

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