BUTLER'S COMMENTS Chapter Five THE PROBLEM OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE (1 Corinthians 5:1-13) IDEAS TO INVESTIGATE: 1. What was the immorality being practiced in this instance in the Corinthian church? 2. How could Christians be arrogant about that? 3. Wasn-'t Paul's instruction too severe to do a... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Atrocious Sin (1 Corinthians 5:1-2) 5 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife. 2And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done t... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, tha... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with... [ Continue Reading ]
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 and robbers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11But rather I wrote t... [ Continue Reading ]