1It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.


In Context

1 It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

3 For I, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

1 Corinthians 5:1 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:1It 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:1IT is absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:1It is reported commonly that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:1Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations — as that one hath the wife of the father! —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:1It 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.