1 Corinthians 5:1

Church Discipline

5:1 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 ¹  his father’s wife.

1 Corinthians 5:10

5:10 In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

Galatians 5:19-21

5:19 Now the works of the flesh ²  are obvious: ³  sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, ⁴  hostilities, ⁵  strife, ⁶  jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, ⁷  factions, 5:21 envying, ⁸  murder, ⁹  drunkenness, carousing, ¹⁰  and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

Ephesians 5:4-5

5:4 Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving. 5:5 For you can be confident of this one thing: ¹¹  that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Ephesians 5:1

Live in Love

5:1 Therefore, be ¹²  imitators of God as dearly loved children

Ephesians 1:9

1:9 He did this when he revealed ¹³  to us the secret ¹⁴  of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth ¹⁵  in Christ, ¹⁶ 

Hebrews 12:14

Do Not Reject God’s Warning

12:14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, ¹⁷  for without it no one will see the Lord.

Hebrews 12:16

12:16 And see to it that no one becomes ¹⁸  an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. ¹⁹ 

Hebrews 13:4

13:4 Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

Revelation 21:8

21:8 But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, ²⁰  idol worshipers, ²¹  and all those who lie, their place ²²  will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. ²³  That ²⁴  is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

22:15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers ²⁵  and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood! ²⁶ 

[5:1]  ¹ tn Or “someone has married”; Grk “someone has,” but the verb ἔχω (ecw) is routinely used of marital relationships (cf. BDAG 420 s.v. 2.a), including sexual relationships. The exact nature of the relationship is uncertain in this case; it is not clear, for example, whether the man had actually married the woman or was merely cohabiting with her.

[5:19]  ² tn See the note on the word “flesh” in Gal 5:13.

[5:19]  ³ tn Or “clear,” “evident.”

[5:20]  ⁴ tn Or “witchcraft.”

[5:20]  ⁵ tn Or “enmities,” “[acts of] hatred.”

[5:20]  ⁶ tn Or “discord” (L&N 39.22).

[5:20]  ⁷ tn Or “discord(s)” (L&N 39.13).

[5:21]  ⁸ tn This term is plural in Greek (as is “murder” and “carousing”), but for clarity these abstract nouns have been translated as singular.

[5:21]  ⁹ tc ‡ φόνοι (fonoi, “murders”) is absent in such important mss as Ì⁴⁶ א B 33 81 323 945 pc sa, while the majority of mss (A C D F G Ψ 0122 0278 1739 1881 Ï lat) have the word. Although the pedigree of the mss which lack the term is of the highest degree, homoioteleuton may well explain the shorter reading. The preceding word has merely one letter difference, making it quite possible to overlook this term (φθόνοι φόνοι, fqonoi fonoi).

[5:21]  ¹⁰ tn Or “revelings,” “orgies” (L&N 88.287).

[5:5]  ¹¹ tn Grk “be knowing this.” See also 2 Pet 1:20 for a similar phrase: τοῦτο πρῶτον γινώσκοντες (touto prwton ginwskonte").

[5:1]  ¹² tn Or “become.”

[1:9]  ¹³ tn Or “He did this by revealing”; Grk “making known, revealing.” Verse 9 begins with a participle dependent on “lavished” in v. 8; the adverbial participle could be understood as temporal (“when he revealed”), which would be contemporaneous to the action of the finite verb “lavished,” or as means (“by revealing”). The participle has been translated here with the temporal nuance to allow for means to also be a possible interpretation. If the translation focused instead upon means, the temporal nuance would be lost as the time frame for the action of the participle would become indistinct.

[1:9]  ¹⁴ tn Or “mystery.” In the NT μυστήριον (musthrion) refers to a divine secret previously undisclosed.

[1:9]  ¹⁵ tn Or “purposed,” “publicly displayed.” Cf. Rom 3:25.

[1:9]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “in him”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[12:14]  ¹⁷ sn The references to peace and holiness show the close connection between this paragraph and the previous one. The pathway toward “holiness” and the need for it is cited in Heb 12:10 and 14. More importantly Prov 4:26-27 sets up the transition from one paragraph to the next: It urges people to stay on godly paths (Prov 4:26, quoted here in v. 13) and promises that God will lead them in peace if they do so (Prov 4:27 [LXX], quoted in v. 14).

[12:16]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “that there not be any,” continuing from v. 15.

[12:16]  ¹⁹ sn An allusion to Gen 27:34-41.

[21:8]  ²⁰ tn On the term φαρμακεία (farmakeia, “magic spells”) see L&N 53.100: “the use of magic, often involving drugs and the casting of spells upon people – ‘to practice magic, to cast spells upon, to engage in sorcery, magic, sorcery.’ φαρμακεία: ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου ἐπλανήθησαν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ‘with your magic spells you deceived all the peoples (of the world)’ Re 18:23.”

[21:8]  ²¹ tn Grk “idolaters.”

[21:8]  ²² tn Grk “their share.”

[21:8]  ²³ tn Traditionally, “brimstone.”

[21:8]  ²⁴ tn Grk “sulfur, which is.” The relative pronoun has been translated as “that” to indicate its connection to the previous clause. The nearest logical antecedent is “the lake [that burns with fire and sulfur],” although “lake” (λίμνη, limnh) is feminine gender, while the pronoun “which” (ὅ, Jo) is neuter gender. This means that (1) the proper antecedent could be “their place” (Grk “their share,”) agreeing with the relative pronoun in number and gender, or (2) the neuter pronoun still has as its antecedent the feminine noun “lake,” since agreement in gender between pronoun and antecedent was not always maintained, with an explanatory phrase occurring with a neuter pronoun regardless of the case of the antecedent. In favor of the latter explanation is Rev 20:14, where the phrase “the lake of fire” is in apposition to the phrase “the second death.”

[22:15]  ²⁵ tn On the term φάρμακοι (farmakoi) see L&N 53.101.

[22:15]  ²⁶ tn Or “lying,” “deceit.”