Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 5:13
Them that are without God will judge — The passing sentence on these he hath reserved to himself. And ye will take away that wicked person — This properly belongs to you.
Them that are without God will judge — The passing sentence on these he hath reserved to himself. And ye will take away that wicked person — This properly belongs to you.
1 CORINTHIANS 5:13 krinei/ {C} The earlier manuscripts being without accent marks, krinei (î46 a A B* C Dgr * Ggr) can be read either as present or future tense. Since the expectation of the parousia...
BUT THEM ... - They who are unconnected with the church are under the direct and special government of God. They are indeed sinners, and they deserve punishment for their crimes. But it is not ours to...
3. CORINTHIAN FAILURES. CHAPTER S 5-6. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Tolerated Case of Gross Immorality. (1 Corinthians 5:1)._ 2. The Call to Separation. (1 Corinthians 5:6). The spiritual declension, the car...
SIN AND COMPLACENCY (1 Corinthians 5:1-8)...
In my letter I wrote to you not to associate with fornicators. You cannot altogether avoid associating with the fornicators of this world, or with those who are greedy and grasping for this world's go...
GOD. App-98. THEREFORE. The texts omit. The injunction is more forcible without it. PUT AWAY. Greek. _exairo,_ as in 1 Corinthians 5:2. FROM AMONG. App-104. THAT, &C. = the wicked (one). App-128. W...
_For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?_ The connection of thought in this and the next verse is as follows: "You have supposed me to have been urging you to abstain altogether fro...
Application of the same principle to offenders generally 9. _I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators_ From the particular case, and the reflections it suggested, we now come to...
ἘΞΆΡΑΤΕ אABCDFG, Vetus Lat. Vulg. The rec. καὶ ἐξαρεῖτε is supported by E and the Peshito. It comes probably from the LXX. of Deuteronomy 17:7 (where, however, many ancient copies have ἐξαρεῖς). 13. Ἐ...
APPLICATION OF THE SAME PRINCIPLE TO OFFENDERS GENERALLY....
_THE EXTENT OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE 1 CORINTHIANS 5:9-13:_ The church had authority to practice discipline only among its members. Paul is not talking about the church dealing with fornicators of the wor...
ΚΡΊΝΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ (G2919) судить, ΈΞΆΡΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΕΞΑΊΡΩ (G1808) исключать, удалять, убирать. Предложное сочетание придает гл. терминативное значение: "окончательно изгон...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Affiliations Sorted (1 Corinthians 5:9-13) 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral men; 10not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy...
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. GOD JUDGETH. - g, Vulgate, read 'will judge.' God is the Judge of the pagan, not we (Romans 2:12)...
8 The sharp contrast between the carnal Corinthians and the faithful apostle loses none of its force if we compare him with the church of today. We need not go outside of Protestantism to find churche...
_(B) 5:1-13. THE CASE OF IMMORALITY_ The Apostle had written (1 Corinthians 4:21) of coming to exercise authority. Here was a case in which it was needed. A man had created a scandal by marrying his s...
PARAPHRASE. 'This is just what I wrote to you in my former letter—that you were to have no connexion with men of impure life. (10) I did not mean that you were to have nothing to do with the heathen,...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 THE PROBLEM OF A SERIOUS *SEXUAL *SIN 5:1-5 V1 News has come to me that there is *sexual *sin among you. A man has been having sex with...
GOD JUDGETH. — In the best MSS. the verb is in the future tense: _God will judge._ He is the judge of the whole earth; we are to leave the heathen world in His hands. THEREFORE PUT AWAY... — Better om...
CHAPTER 8 EXCOMMUNICATION; OR, PURGING OUT THE OLD LEAVEN FROM the subject of the factions in the Corinthian Church, which has so long detained Paul, he now passes to the second division of his Epist...
§ 16. A PREVIOUS LETTER MISREAD. The Cor [850] Church were taking no action against the offender of § 15; in this neglect they disregarded the Apostle's instructions conveyed by some recent letter. Th...
τί γάρ μοι τοὺς ἔξω κ. τ. λ.; “For what business of mine is it (_Quid mea refert?_ Cv [879]) to judge those that are outside? (Is it) not those within (that) you judge, while those without God judges?...
REMOVING GERMS OF EVIL 1 Corinthians 5:1 The sin referred to in this chapter has been condoned by the Corinthian church, and this proved that the prevalent standard of morals was low. A man had marri...
The apostle now passed to derelictions. The first was lack of discipline. A case of immorality had brought no sense of shame to the church, and no action had been taken. The woman was called to immedi...
Christians Must Judge Those Within the Church It was specifically those Christians in sin that Paul warned the brethren not to keep company with. McGarvey says, "Have no interchange of hospitality whi...
_Take away. This passage is differently understood by commentators. By some it is understood thus: expel the evil one from among you, that is, the incestuous man. (Estius) --- By others, it is underst...
VV. 13 justifies by a remark, and moreover by a Scriptural quotation, the distinction laid down in 1 Corinthians 5:12. There are two domains, each subject to a different jurisdiction: the Christian ju...
“For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do ye not judge them that are within? 13. But them that are without, God judgeth. And put away from among yourselves that wicked person.” Th...
REFLECTIONS SEE, my soul! what corruptions the human heart is exposed to, and how the peace and prosperity of Church-communion, is liable to be interrupted by the improper indulgence of fleshly lusts...
(9) I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: (10) Yet not altogether the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye ne...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
13._Put away that wicked person. _This is commonly explained as referring to the person who was guilty of an illicit connection with his mother-in-law. For as to those who understand the expression to...
He begins to treat the details of conduct and of discipline; and, first of all, the carnal defilement carried on in their midst to the last degree of hardness of conscience. Those who sought their own...
BUT THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT GOD JUDGETH,.... Or "will judge", in the great day of judgment; wherefore though such persons did not fall under the censures and punishment of the apostle, nor of a church o...
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. Ver. 13. _Therefore put away_] Gr. εξαρειτε, Ye will put away, _q.d._ I hope ye will, though hither...
_For_, &c. I speak of Christians only: for _what have I to do to judge them that are without_ Namely, heathen: _do not ye judge them that are within?_ Ye, as well as I, judge those of your own communi...
If members of the church continue in immorality, their good, the good of the church, and the honor of Christ require that they should be excluded from it....
BUT THEM, THAT ARE WITHOUT GOD JUDGETH. THEREFORE PUT AWAY FROM AMONG YOURSELVES THAT WICKED PERSON. Paul had some time before written the Corinthians a letter which is lost, probably having been dest...
Explaining a misunderstood term:...
The emphasis on human wisdom in Corinth was sadly accompanied by a case of revolting moral corruption. Philosophy is far removed from spiritual power, very commonly. Paul speaks here of a case well kn...
BUT THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT GOD JUDGETH. PUT AWAY THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. 'God judgeth' -those who haven't accepted Christ, are already under God's judgement. (John 3:36; Mark 16:16) 'T...
9-13 Christians are to avoid familiar converse with all who disgrace the Christian name. Such are only fit companions for their brethren in sin, and to such company they should be left, whenever it is...
BUT THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT GOD JUDGETH; for heathens that live brutish and scandalous lives, God will judge them; the church hath nothing to do with them, they never gave up themselves to them, and are...
But them that are without God judgeth. [These facts showed that the apostle had referred to those within the church; the discipline of those without is exclusively in the hands of God.] _Put away the...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V since both in the destruction of the flesh and in the saving of the spirit there is, on His part, judicial process; and when he bade "the wicked person be put away f...
1 Corinthians 5:13 But G1161 outside G1854 God G2316 judges G2919 (G5692) Therefore G2532 away G1808 (G5692
IMPORTANT SCANDALS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH (5:1-6:20). Having dealt with the central spiritual concern which has been to do with their divisiveness over secondary matters, over ‘the wisdom of words...
‘For what have I to do with judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside, while those who are outside God judges? Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.' It is not Paul...
1 Corinthians 5:13. WHERE-AS THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT GOD JUDGETH that is His sole prerogative, and to Him ye may well leave it. PUT AWAY THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. The marked abruptness wit...
PUT AWAY THE WICKED MAN (εξαρατε τον πονηρον). By this quotation from Deuteronomy 17:7 Paul clinches the case for the expulsion of the offender (1 Corinthians 5:2). Note εξ twice and effective aori...
CONTENTS: Immorality rebuked and discipline enjoined. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Satan. CONCLUSION: The heinous sins of professed Christians are quickly noted and noised abroad to the injury of Chris...
1 Corinthians 5:1. _There is fornication among you._ Πορνεια designates every species of illicit intercourse between the sexes. Our Saxon word _forliggian_ properly expresses fornication, but here adu...
TO JUDGE OUTSIDERS. It is none of Paul's business, or ours, to judge those outside the messianic community. They are in the hands of God. OF YOUR OWN FELLOWSHIP. The church is a voluntary group, and i...
_It is reported that there is fornication among you._ GROSS SCANDALS 1. May arise within the Church. 2. Occasion grievous reproach. 3. Should be instantly investigated and removed. (_J. Lyth, D. D...
_Your glorying is not good._ THE TRUE CHURCH A FEAST These verses lead us to look upon the true Church-- I. In its internal enjoyments. The association of Christly men is a “feast,” because it cont...
_I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators._ AVOID THE COMPANY OF SINNERS I. Is this practicable? 1. Not absolutely: we must have intercourse with the world. 2. Yet practicall...
FOR WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO JUDGE THEM ALSO THAT ARE WITHOUT? Without and within I. Those without. 1. Have no share in Church privileges. 2. Are exempt from Church jurisdiction. 3. Are liable to the...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 5:13 “PURGE... FROM AMONG YOU.” Like Israel, they must preserve their holiness of life. See...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 A Report of Sexual Immorality and Lawsuits. Paul has heard of several problems in Corinth. There is a bizarre case of sexual misconduct ...
CHAPTER V. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle proceeds from the schism of the Corinthians to deal with the scandal caused by incest among them: he blames them for allowing one living openly in i...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ THE CASE OF SHAMEFUL SIN (Also in 2 Corinthians 2:5; 2 Corinthians 7:8.) 1 Corinthians 5:1. COMMONLY.—“_Actually_” (; widely accepted). AMONG YOU.—Joi
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 _Excommunication of an incestuous offender._ 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 IT IS REPORTED. The abruptness with which the subject is introduced shows THE intensity of St. Pa
Let's turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians, chapter 5. The Corinthian letter of Paul was mainly corrective. The Corinthian church had innumerable problems. Those from the house of Chloe had reporte...
1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 1 Corinthians 5:7; 2 Peter 2:9;...
Wicked [π ο ν η ρ ο ν]. Mischievous to the Church. See on Luke 3:19. The usage of the Septuagint emphasizes the idea of active harmfulness. The word has, however, in some passages, the sense of niggar...
ADMONITIONS TO A WORLDLY CHURCH 1 Corinthians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. How quickly bad reports fly. The Apostle wrote, "It is reported commonly." Just so. Evil deeds usually travel on the wings of...