1 Corinthians 5:1

New English Translation

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

Genesis 37:2

This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

Genesis 49:4

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

2 Samuel 16:22

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom had sex with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 20:3

Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

1 Chronicles 5:1

The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn – (Now he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph, Israel’s son. So Reuben is not listed as firstborn in the genealogical records.

Jeremiah 2:33

“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

Ezekiel 16:47

Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

Ezekiel 22:10

They have sex with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

Leviticus 18:8

You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.

Leviticus 20:11

If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Amos 2:7

They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

Acts 15:20

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

2 Corinthians 2:5

But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate) he has saddened all of you as well.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So then, even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf before God.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

Ephesians 5:3

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

Deuteronomy 22:30

(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

Deuteronomy 27:20

‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Colossians 3:5

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

Revelation 2:21

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

Revelation 21:8

But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”

1 Samuel 2:24

This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.