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 6:13

6:13 “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” ²  The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:22

7:22 For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

1 Corinthians 14:16

14:16 Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift ³  say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?

1 Corinthians 14:23

14:23 So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

1 Corinthians 15:27

15:27 For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. ⁴  But when it says “everything” has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.

[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.

[6:13]  ² tn Grk “both this [stomach] and these [foods].”

[14:16]  ³ tn Grk “how can someone who fills the place of the unlearned say ‘Amen.’”

[15:27]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Ps 8:6.