1 Corinthians 5:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

I don’t want to believe what I am hearing—that there is sexual sin among you. And it is such a bad kind of sexual sin that even those who have never known God don’t allow it. People say that a man there has his father’s wife.

Cross References

Revelation 21:8

But those who are cowards, those who refuse to believe, those who do terrible things, those who kill, those who sin sexually, those who do evil magic, those who worship idols, and those who tell lies—they will all have a place in the lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Revelation 2:21

I have given her time to change her heart and turn away from her sin, but she does not want to change.

Colossians 3:5

So put everything evil out of your life: sexual sin, doing anything immoral, letting sinful thoughts control you, and wanting things that are wrong. And don’t keep wanting more and more for yourself, which is the same as worshiping a false god.

Ephesians 5:3

But there must be no sexual sin among you. There must not be any kind of evil or selfishly wanting more and more, because such things are not right for God’s holy people.

Leviticus 18:8

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife, even if she is not your mother, because that is like having sexual relations with your father.

Galatians 5:19

The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: committing sexual sin, being morally bad, doing all kinds of shameful things,

1 Thessalonians 4:7

God chose us to be holy. He does not want us to live in sin.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come to you again, my God will make me humble before you. I may have to cry over the loss of some who sinned before. Many of them have still not changed their hearts to be sorry for their evil lives, their sexual sins, and the shameful things they have done.

1 Corinthians 6:18

So run away from sexual sin. It involves the body in a way that no other sin does. So if you commit sexual sin, you are sinning against your own body.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Someone else says, “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” Yes, and God will destroy them both. But the body is not for sexual sin. The body is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Surely you know that people who do wrong will not get to enjoy God’s kingdom. Don’t be fooled. These are the people who will not get to enjoy his kingdom: those who sin sexually, those who worship idols, those who commit adultery, men who let other men use them for sex or who have sex with other men, those who steal, those who are greedy, those who drink too much, those who abuse others with insults, and those who cheat.

1 Corinthians 5:11

I meant you must not associate with people who claim to be believers but continue to live in sin. Don’t even eat with a brother or sister who sins sexually, is greedy, worships idols, abuses others with insults, gets drunk, or cheats people.

Acts 15:29

Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. Don’t eat meat from animals that have been strangled or any meat that still has the blood in it. Don’t be involved in sexual sin. If you stay away from these, you will do well. We say goodbye now.

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should send a letter telling them only the things they should not do: Don’t eat food that has been given to idols. This makes the food unclean. Don’t be involved in sexual sin. Don’t eat meat from animals that have been strangled or any meat that still has the blood in it.

Jeremiah 2:33

“Judah, you have become so good at finding lovers. Even the worst women could learn some evil ways from you.

2 Corinthians 7:12

The main reason I wrote that letter was not because of the one who did the wrong or the one who was hurt. I wrote so that you would realize, before God, how very much you care for us.

1 Corinthians 1:11

My brothers and sisters, some members of Chloe’s family told me that there are arguments among you.

Amos 2:7

They pushed their faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons had sexual relations with the same woman. They ruined my holy name.

Ezekiel 16:47

You did all the terrible things they did, but you also did much worse!

Deuteronomy 27:20

“The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who shames his father by having sexual relations with his father’s wife.’ “Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 22:30

“A man must not bring shame to his father by marrying his father’s wife.

Ezekiel 22:10

There men commit sexual sins with their father’s wife. There the men rape women—even during their monthly time of bleeding.

1 Chronicles 5:1

Reuben was Israel’s first son. Reuben should have received the special privileges of the oldest son. But he had sexual relations with his father’s wife. So those privileges were given to Joseph’s sons. In the family history, Reuben’s name is not listed as the first son. Judah became stronger than his brothers, so the leaders came from his family. But Joseph’s family got the other privileges that belong to the oldest son. Reuben’s sons were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

2 Samuel 20:3

David went back to his house in Jerusalem. He had left ten of his slave women to take care of the house. He put these women in a special house. Then he put guards around the house. They stayed in this house until they died. David took care of the women and gave them food, but he did not have sexual relations with them. They lived like widows until they died.

2 Samuel 16:22

Then they put up a tent for Absalom up on the roof of the house. Absalom had sexual relations with his father’s wives so that all the Israelites could see what happened.

1 Samuel 2:24

Sons, stop that! The Lord’s people are saying bad things about you.

Leviticus 20:11

If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. It is as if that man had sexual relations with his father!

Genesis 49:4

But your passion was like a flood you couldn’t control. So you will not remain my most honored son. You climbed into your father’s bed and slept with one of his wives. You brought shame to my bed, to the bed you lay on.

Genesis 37:2

This is the story of Jacob’s family. Joseph was a young man, 17 years old. His job was to take care of the sheep and the goats. Joseph did this work with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah. (Bilhah and Zilpah were his father’s wives.) Joseph told his father about the bad things that his brothers did.

Genesis 35:22

Israel stayed there for a short time. While he was there, Reuben slept with Israel’s slave woman Bilhah. Israel heard about this, and he was very angry. These are the names of Jacob’s twelve sons:

2 Corinthians 2:5

Someone in your group has caused sadness—not to me, but to all of you. I mean he has caused sadness to all in some way. (I don’t want to make it sound worse than it really is.)