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1 Corinthians

Addresses issues in the Corinthian church, teaching on unity, love, and resurrection.

Chapter 5

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KJV: It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

Geneva: It is heard certainely that there is fornication among you: and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles, that one should haue his fathers wife.

KJV: And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

Geneva: And ye are puffed vp and haue not rather sorowed, that he which hath done this deede, might be put from among you.

KJV: For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

Geneva: For I verely as absent in bodie, but present in spirit, haue determined already as though I were present, that he that hath thus done this thing,

KJV: In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Geneva: When ye are gathered together, and my spirit, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that such one, I say, by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ,

KJV: To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Geneva: Be deliuered vnto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus.

KJV: Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Geneva: Your reioycing is not good: knowe ye not that a litle leauen, leaueneth ye whole lumpe?

KJV: Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Geneva: Purge out therefore the olde leauen, that ye may be a newe lumpe, as ye are vnleauened: for Christ our Passeouer is sacrificed for vs.

KJV: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Geneva: Therefore let vs keepe the feast, not with olde leauen, neither in the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of synceritie and trueth.

KJV: I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

Geneva: I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, that ye should not companie together with fornicatours,

KJV: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

Geneva: And not altogether with the fornicatours of this world, or with the couetous, or with extorsioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must goe out of the world.

KJV: But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Geneva: But nowe I haue written vnto you, that ye companie not together: if any that is called a brother, be a fornicatour, or couetous, or an idolater, or a rayler, or a drunkard, or an extorsioner, with such one eate not.

KJV: For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

Geneva: For what haue I to doe, to iudge them also which are without? doe ye not iudge them that are within?

KJV: But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Geneva: But God iudgeth them that are without. Put away therefore from among your selues that wicked man.