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NASB | 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported [everywhere] that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is condemned even among the [unbelieving] Gentiles: that someone has [an intimate relationship with] his father's wife. [Deut 22:30; 27:20] |
Bible Question (short): What does1 Cor. 5:11 mean? |
Question (full): 1 corinthians 5:11 states that we are not to associate with anyone who calls himself a brother who is sexually immoral etc...with such a one do not even eat with. (paraphrased) What I want to know is how do you know exactly if that person is a believer living in sin or someone who claims to be a believer in sin...Even if the person says they are a Christian doesn't mean they are. Even if I doubt that they are a believer based on there own admission of being a believer does this scripture apply? I met a new women in our church and she came forward for prayer feeling guilty of her addiction to prescription drugs and her live in boy friend. She says that she was saved and used to even teach Sunday school and even had much knowledge of the scriptures. But when I counceled her to take the next step of faith and leave this boyfriend she did not heed my councel and came to church a week later with this live in boyfriend and wouldn't hardly look at me....I even called her and she did not return my call. I told her if she really loved God and had a healthy fear of Him she would obey the Lord.....So would she be considered a believer living in sexual sin by her own admission? |