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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: 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? |
Bible Answer: What does 1 Corinthians 5:11 mean? It says what it means and it means exactly what it says. NASB 1 Corinthians 5:11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one. AMPLIFIED 1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that usurps the place of God], or is a person with a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person. This verse doesn't say anything about judging whether a person is saved or not. It simply says: "not to associate with any SO-CALLED BROTHER if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler." (Emphasis added.) You write: "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..." The issue in this verse is not: Is that person a believer? If the person CLAIMS to be a believer and ADMITS that she has a live-in boyfriend, you're not judging whether she is a believer. The verse doesn't say not to associate with any BROTHER. Instead, it says, "not to associate with any SO-CALLED brother [anyone who bears the name of (Christian) brother (Amplified Bible)]." (Emphasis added). So there is no need to judge whether that person IS a brother. The point is that he himself CLAIMS to be a brother. Once a person CLAIMS he is a believer and "he is KNOWN to be guilty of immorality" etc., the Bible in plain language declares that we are not to associate with him -- period. (Emphasis added.) When does this Scripture apply? It applies whenever there is "a so-called brother who is an immoral person, [etc.]." |