Your glorying — Either in your gifts or prosperity, at such a time as this, is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven — One sin, or one sinner. Leaveneth the whole lump — Diffuses guilt and infection through the whole congregation.
1 CORINTHIANS 5:6 zumoi/ Several Western witnesses (D* itd vg Marcion Irenaeuslat Tertullian Origenlat Lucifer Augustine Ambrosiaster) read doloi/. The same Western correction occurs in...
Verse 1 Corinthians 5:6. _YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD._] You are triumphing in your superior knowledge, and busily employed in setting up and supporting your respective teachers, while the Church is lef...
YOUR GLORYING - Your boasting; or confidence in your present condition, as if you were eminent in purity and piety. IS NOT GOOD - Is not well, proper, right. Boasting is never good; but it is especial...
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...
1 CORINTHIANS 5. THE CASE OF INCEST. Paul now passes from the parties to a case of immorality exceptionally hideous and, so far as his knowledge goes, unprecedented even among the heathen. It is every...
SIN AND COMPLACENCY (1 Corinthians 5:1-8)...
It is actually reported that there is unchastity among you, and unchastity so monstrous that it does not even exist among the heathen, unchastity the consequence of which is that a certain man has for...
GLORYING. boasting. Greek. _kauchema._ See Romans 4:2. NOT. App-105. KNOW. App-132. See 1 Corinthians 3:16. LEAVEN. See Matthew 13:33. LEAVENETH. See...
_Your glorying is not good_ Rather, THAT STATE OF THINGS OF WHICH YOU GLORY IS NOT GOOD. The word here translated _glorying_signifies that whereof a man glories, and is so translated in Romans 4:2. Cf...
THE CASE OF THE INCESTUOUS PERSON....
ΟΥ̓ ΚΑΛῸΝ ΤῸ ΚΑΎΧΗΜΑ ὙΜΩ͂Ν. THAT STATE OF THINGS OF WHICH YOU GLORY IS NOT GOOD. καύχημα properly signifies that whereof a man glories, and is so translated in Romans 4:2. Cf. ch. 1 Corinthians 9:15-1...
_THE REASON FOR CHURCH DISCIPLINE 1 CORINTHIANS 5:6-8:_ The first purpose of church discipline is the salvation of the offending brother. God still wants this brother saved. Another reason for discipl...
ΚΑΎΧΗΜΑ (G2745) хвастовство, похвальба (RP). Ο'ΊΔΑΤΕ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492), def. perf. в _знач. praes._ знать. Ind. используется с ΟΎΚ (G3756) в вопросе, на который ожидается утвердительн...
DISCOURSE: 1956 SIN A MALIGNANT LEAVEN 1 Corinthians 5:6. _Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?_ THAT ungodly men may glory in their shame, may easily be conceived: but that per...
YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD— Some would read this interrogatively,—_Have you not a fine subject for boasting?—Glorying_ or boasting is throughout the beginning of this Epistle spoken, of the preference...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Matter of Moral Discipline_ (1-8) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 5:1-8. It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gen...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Apostolic Summons (1 Corinthians 5:3-8) 3 For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment 4in the name of the Lord...
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Your glorying in your attachments and your teachers (), while all the while ye connive at such a scandal, is qu...
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...
PARAPHRASE. 'A rumour has reached me that unchastity exists among you, and that one of your number has taken his stepmother as his wife, an act which the very heathen abhor. (2) How can you maintain y...
_(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...
YOUR GLORYING] see on 1 Corinthians 5:2. A LITTLE LEAVEN] Leaven is here used of corrupting influences as elsewhere in the NT., except in our Lord's parable of the leaven: cp. Matthew 16:6; Matthew 16...
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...
YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD. — There is possibly a reference here to some boasting regarding their spiritual state contained in the letter which had reached St. Paul from Corinth, and to which part of t...
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...
“Your vaunt is not good:” καύχημα, _materies gloriandi_ (_cf._ αἰσχρὸν κλέος, Eurip., _Helena_, 135: Mr [834]), found in the state of the Church, of which the Cor [835] were proud (1 Corinthians 4:6 f...
§ 15. THE CASE OF INCEST. About the party-strifes at Cor [801] P. has been informed by the members of a particular family (1 Corinthians 1:11); the monstrous case of incest, to which he turns abruptly...
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...
Warning Against the Leaven of Sin They had been proud of their tolerance of sin, as if that was a badge of true righteousness. However, Paul warned them that such pride was not good. He also reminded...
(7) Your glorying (d) [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (7) Another goal of excommunication is that others are not infected, and therefore it must of necessity...
Your glorying is not good, when you suffer such a scandal among you: you have little reason to boast of your masters, or even of the gifts and graces you received. A little leaven corrupteth the whole...
“Your glorying is not good; know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?” There are two ways of understanding the connection between the following passage and that which precedes: either...
(6) Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (7) Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our p...
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...
_THE EFFECT OF A LITTLE LEAVEN_ ‘Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?’ 1 Corinthians 5:6 The subject of sin pervades the entire Bible, either directly or indirectly, by precep...
6._Your glorying is not good_. He condemns their glorying, not simply because they extolled themselves beyond what is lawful for man, but because they delighted themselves in their faults. He had prev...
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...
YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD,.... Their glorying in their outward flourishing condition, in their riches and wealth, and in their ministers, in their wisdom and parts when under such an humbling dispensa...
Your glorying _is_ not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Ver. 6. _Your glorying is not good_] It is the height of wickedness to glory in wickedness, as Lamech, Genesis...
_Your glorying_ Of the flourishing state of your church, or of your gifts, at such a time as this; _is not good_ Is very unseasonable, your church being defiled by tolerating such vices, and thereby e...
YOUR GLORYING; in their supposed attainments. A LITTLE LEAVEN; one such wicked person suffered to remain would corrupt others and injure the whole....
YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD. KNOW YE NOT THAT A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP?...
The general need of purification in the Christian congregations:...
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...
YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD. KNOW YE NOT THAT. LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP? 'Your glorying is not good' -'Your pride in your church is lamentably out of place' (Phi); 'Your boasting is unsee...
1-8 The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, winked at by the Corinthians. Party spirit, and a false notion of Christian liberty, seem to have saved the offender from censure. Grievous indeed is it that...
You boast and glory because you have men of parts amongst you, persons whom the world count wise; YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD; what do you glory for, when you have such a scandalous person amongst you,...
Your glorying is not good. [Their glorying was sinful enough at best, but much more so when it was so inopportune.] _Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?_...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And as then the condemnation of sinners extended to others who approved of them, and joined in their society; so also is it the case at present, that "a little leave...
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‘Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For our Passover has also been...
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...
1 Corinthians 5:6. YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD is out of place, unseemly. KNOW YE NOT THAT A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LAMP? ‘'Tis only one case, ye say; but are ye so ignorant as not to know t...
NOT GOOD (ου καλον). Not beautiful, not seemly, in view of this plague spot, this cancer on the church. They needed a surgical operation at once instead of boasting and pride (puffed up). Καυχημα i...
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...
IT IS NOT RIGHT. They were proud of their (false) teacher, and though he understood the gospel better than Paul; and were (perhaps) proud of the way this man defended the incestuous relationship. YOU...
_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...
_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...
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 ...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 5:6 LEAVEN. Fermented dough. Leftover dough was often added to a new lump of dough. By analogy, sin that goes undisciplined by the church will spread its destructiv...
_Your glorying is not good._ Your boasting yourselves in your worldly wisdom, which makes you say, "I am of Paul," "I of Apollos," is evil and out of place. It were better for you to cast down the eye...
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 15:33; 1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Corinthians 4:19;...
Glorying [κ α υ χ η μ α]. Not the act, but the subject of boasting; namely, the condition of the Corinthian church. Lump [φ υ ρ α μ α]. See on Romans 12:21. A significant term, suggesting the oneness...
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...
As if the apostle had said, "You Corinthians are prone to pride yourselves, in the numbers of wise and wealthy men that are found among you; you glory that Corinth is the eye of Greece, and Greece the...