1 Corinthians 5:1

New Century Version

It is actually being said that there is sexual sin among you. And it is a kind that does not happen even among people who do not know God. A man there has his father’s wife.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was there, Reuben had sexual relations with Israel’s slave woman Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

Genesis 37:2

This is the family history of Jacob: Joseph was a young man, seventeen years old. He and his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, cared for the flocks. Joseph gave his father bad reports about his brothers.

Genesis 49:4

But you are uncontrolled like water, so you will no longer lead your brothers. This is because you got into your father’s bed and shamed me by having sexual relations with my slave girl.

2 Samuel 16:22

So they put up a tent for Absalom on the roof of the palace where everyone in Israel could see it. And Absalom had sexual relations with his father’s slave women.

2 Samuel 20:3

David came back to his palace in Jerusalem. He had left ten of his slave women there to take care of the palace. Now he put them in a locked house. He gave them food, but he did not have sexual relations with them. So they lived like widows until they died.

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 slave woman. So those special privileges were given to Joseph’s sons. (Joseph was a son of Israel.) In the family history Reuben’s name is not listed as the first son.

Jeremiah 2:33

You really know how to chase after love. Even the worst women can learn evil ways from you.

Ezekiel 16:47

You not only followed their ways and did the hateful things they did, but you were soon worse than they were in all your ways.

Ezekiel 22:10

The men in you have sexual relations with their fathers’ wives and with women who are unclean, during their time of monthly bleeding.

Leviticus 18:8

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would shame your father.

Leviticus 20:11

If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father, and both the man and his father’s wife must be put to death. They have brought it on themselves.

Amos 2:7

They walk on poor people as if they were dirt, and they refuse to be fair to those who are suffering. Fathers and sons have sexual relations with the same woman, and so they ruin my holy name.

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write a letter to them telling them these things: Stay away from food that has been offered to idols (which makes it unclean), any kind of sexual sin, eating animals that have been strangled, and blood.

Acts 15:29

Stay away from any food that has been offered to idols, eating any animals that have been strangled, and blood, and any kind of sexual sin. If you stay away from these things, you will do well. Good-bye.

1 Corinthians 1:11

My brothers and sisters, some people from Chloe’s family have told me quite plainly that there are quarrels among you.

1 Corinthians 5:11

I am writing to tell you that you must not associate with those who call themselves believers in Christ but who sin sexually, or are greedy, or worship idols, or abuse others with words, or get drunk, or cheat people. Do not even eat with people like that.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

So run away from sexual sin. Every other sin people do is outside their bodies, but those who sin sexually sin against their own bodies.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Surely you know that the people who do wrong will not inherit God’s kingdom. Do not be fooled. Those who sin sexually, worship idols, take part in adultery, those who are male prostitutes, or men who have sexual relations with other men, those who steal, are greedy, get drunk, lie about others, or rob—these people will not inherit God’s kingdom.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come to you again, my God will make me ashamed before you. I may be saddened by many of those who have sinned because they have not changed their hearts or turned from their sexual sins and the shameful things they have done.

2 Corinthians 2:5

Someone there among you has caused sadness, not to me, but to all of you. I mean he caused sadness to all in some way. (I do not want to make it sound worse than it really is.)

2 Corinthians 7:12

I wrote that letter, not because of the one who did the wrong or because of the person who was hurt. I wrote the letter so you could see, before God, the great care you have for us.

Galatians 5:19

The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful, not being pure, taking part in sexual sins,

Ephesians 5:3

But there must be no sexual sin among you, or any kind of evil or greed. Those things are not right for God’s holy people.

Deuteronomy 22:30

A man must not marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father in this way.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“A man will be cursed who has sexual relations with his father’s wife, because it is a dishonor to his father.” Then all the people will say, “Amen!”

Colossians 3:5

So put all evil things out of your life: sexual sinning, doing evil, letting evil thoughts control you, wanting things that are evil, and greed. This is really serving a false god.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

God called us to be holy and does not want us to live in sin.

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.

Revelation 21:8

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

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons. The Lord’s people are spreading a bad report about you.