Teaching Notes I CORINTHIANS 5 and 6

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Teaching Notes I CORINTHIANS 5 and 6

Hugh Wood, Atlanta, Georgia

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The first Quarantine in the USA since 1918 continues.  It is Day 28 or something. 

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"The grass withers and the flower [fades], but the word of [the Lord] endures forever.”  Isaiah 40:8."

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This Book almost certainly written by Paul.  It is addressed to the church in Corinth, in Greece.  It is in every early accepted copy of the Bible.  It is likely written by the end of AD 53 or 54.

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Chapter 5. The Case of Incest

One of them was openly co-habiting with his father’s wife.

And the Church, instead of administering discipline, was proud

of their liberality in harboring such a person. Paul directed

that he be delivered to Satan, 5, that is, formally excommuni-

cated from the Church: for two purposes: one, to serve as an

example, to keep the practice from spreading: the other, in hope

of. bringing the guilty party to Repentance. The case is referred

to again in II Cor 2.

Chapter 6:1-8. Lawsuits

Very unbecoming in followers of a religion of Brotherly Love

to air their difficulties in Heathen Courts. Christians will be as—

sociated with God in the Final Judgment of the World; yet they_

Were unable to settle their own quarrels, 2-7. Why not be willing

to suffer wrong?

Chapter 6:9-20. Immorality

“Venus was the principal Deity of Corinth. Her Temple was one

of the most-magnificent buildings in the city. In it a thousand

Priestesses, Public Prostitutes, were kept, at public expense, there

Always always ready for Immoral Indulgence, as worship to their

Goddess. Some of the Corinthian Christians, having been used

to a religion that Encouraged Immoral Living, were finding it

a little hard to adapt themselves to their new religion Which Pro-

hibited Immoral Living. Paul had said, in discussing certain

things, that All Things are Lawful, 12. Some of them evidently

were quoting this to justify their Promiscuous Sexual Indulgence.

Paul positively states that it does not so apply; and positively, in

unmistakable language, prohibits Christians from such Indulgences.                         

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From The Bible Project (c)

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1 CORINTHIANS 5 AND 6

1 Corinthians 5 New International Version (NIV)

Dealing With a Case of Incest

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 

7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[c] but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”[d]

Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 5:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 5:5 Or of his body

1 Corinthians 5:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 8:11, 13.

1 Corinthians 5:13 Deut. 13:5; 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7

1 Corinthians 6 New International Version (NIV)

Lawsuits Among Believers

6 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? 2 Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4 Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? 5 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6 But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!

7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Sexual Immorality

12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[b] 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[c]

18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 6:9 The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.

1 Corinthians 6:16 Gen. 2:24

1 Corinthians 6:17 Or in the Spirit

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New International Version (NIV)

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Some content adapted from Halley, Henry H., Bible Handbook, Grayson Publishing, Minneapolis, MN.  © 1927 - 1959, 1964

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Hugh C. Wood, Atlanta, Georgia

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