1 Corinthians 5:1

God's Word

Your own members are aware that there is sexual sin going on among them. This kind of sin is not even heard of among unbelievers—a man is actually married to his father’s wife.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father’s concubine  Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had 12 sons.

Genesis 37:2

This is the account of Jacob and his descendants. Joseph was a seventeen-year-old young man. He took care of the flocks with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph told his father about the bad things his brothers were doing.

Genesis 49:4

You will no longer be first because you were out of control like a flood and you climbed into your father’s bed. Then you dishonored it. He climbed up on my couch.

2 Samuel 16:22

So a tent was put up on the roof for Absalom, and he slept with his father’s concubines in plain sight of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:3

When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines  he had left to look after the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but no longer slept with them. So they lived like widows in confinement until they died.

1 Chronicles 5:1

These are the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn. (Although he was the firstborn, his rights as firstborn were given to his nephews, Joseph’s sons, because he dishonored his father’s bed. However, Joseph couldn’t be listed in the genealogy as the firstborn son.

Jeremiah 2:33

You carefully planned ways to look for love. You taught your ways to wicked women.

Ezekiel 16:47

You didn’t follow their ways. You didn’t do the same disgusting things that they did. It only took you a little time to be more corrupt than they ever were.

Ezekiel 22:10

Men have sex with their father’s wives. They have sex with women when the women are having their periods and are unclean.

Leviticus 18:8

Never have sexual intercourse with your stepmother. She is related to you through your father.

Leviticus 20:11

Whoever has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife has violated his father’s marriage. Both he and his father’s wife must be put to death. They deserve to die.

Amos 2:7

They stomp the heads of the poor into the dust. They push the humble out of the way. Father and son sleep with the same woman. They dishonor my holy name.

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write a letter telling them to keep away from things polluted by false gods, from sexual sins, from eating the meat of strangled animals, and from eating bloody meat.

Acts 15:29

by keeping away from food sacrificed to false gods, from eating bloody meat, from eating the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual sins. If you avoid these things, you will be doing what’s right. Farewell!

1 Corinthians 1:11

Brothers and sisters, some people from Chloe’s family have made it clear to me that you are quarreling among yourselves.

1 Corinthians 5:11

Now, what I meant was that you should not associate with people who call themselves brothers or sisters in the Christian faith but live in sexual sin, are greedy, worship false gods, use abusive language, get drunk, or are dishonest. Don’t eat with such people.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will put an end to both of them. However, the body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Stay away from sexual sins. Other sins that people commit don’t affect their bodies the same way sexual sins do. People who sin sexually sin against their own bodies.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Don’t you know that wicked people won’t inherit God’s kingdom? Stop deceiving yourselves! People who continue to commit sexual sins, who worship false gods, those who commit adultery, homosexuals,

2 Corinthians 12:21

I’m afraid that when I come to you again, my God may humble me. I may have to grieve over many who formerly led sinful lives and have not changed the way they think and act about the perversion, sexual sins, and promiscuity in which they have been involved.

2 Corinthians 2:5

If someone caused distress, I’m not the one really affected. To some extent—although I don’t want to emphasize this too much—it has affected all of you.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So, when I wrote to you, I didn’t write because of the man who did the wrong or the man who was hurt by it. Rather, I wrote because I wanted you to show your devotion to us in God’s sight.

Galatians 5:19

Now, the effects of the corrupt nature are obvious: illicit sex, perversion, promiscuity,

Ephesians 5:3

Don’t let sexual sin, perversion of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you. This is not appropriate behavior for God’s holy people.

Deuteronomy 22:30

A man must never marry his father’s wife because this would disgrace his father.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“Whoever has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife will be cursed. He has disgraced his father.” Then all the people will say amen.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death whatever is worldly in you: your sexual sin, perversion, passion, lust, and greed (which is the same thing as worshiping wealth).

1 Thessalonians 4:7

God didn’t call us to be sexually immoral but to be holy.

Revelation 2:21

I gave her time to turn to me and change the way she thinks and acts, but she refuses to turn away from her sexual sins.

Revelation 21:8

But cowardly, unfaithful, and detestable people, murderers, sexual sinners, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

1 Samuel 2:24

Sons, the report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading isn’t good!