1 Corinthians 5:13

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“God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.””

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BSBPD

“God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Corinthians 5:13 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 13:5Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  2. Deuteronomy 17:7The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  3. Deuteronomy 17:12But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  4. Deuteronomy 21:21Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
  5. Deuteronomy 22:21she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  6. Deuteronomy 22:24you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  7. Psalms 50:6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
  8. Ecclesiastes 9:18Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
  9. Matthew 18:17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
  10. Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
  11. Romans 2:16on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
  12. 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
  13. 1 Corinthians 5:5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
  14. 1 Corinthians 5:7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
  15. Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  16. 2 Peter 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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