1 Corinthians 5
1 Corinthians 5 is the fifth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus. In this short chapter, Paul deals with an issue of sexual immorality in the Corinthian church. Text. The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 13 verses. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Sexual immorality and exclusion. "The censure of the party-divisions [addressed in the previous chapters] is concluded", and Paul moves  on without transition to a "widely" or "universally" reported issue of a member of the Corinthian church living with his father's wife and the church failing to remove this man from their fellowship. Paul criticises the church for its arrogance in not taking action, which might have been due to the factional nature of the church or to a false understanding of Christian liberty. In 2 Corinthians 2, Paul commands the church in Corinth to forgive and restore a certain brother to fellowship, apparently the same person. Verse 6. New King James Version Paul's previous letter. Verse 9  refers to an earlier letter written by Paul to the Corinthians, sometimes called the "warning letter" or the "pre-canonical letter". Paraphrase versions like J. B. Philips' translation and the New Testament for Everyone explicitly call this a "previous" letter, supplying a word which is not in the original text. The previous letter had warned members of the church not to associate with people living immoral lives. Verse 13. New King James Version Cross references: Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 22:21, 24; 24:7