1 Corinthians 5:1 meaning and explanation
It 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.
1 Corinthians 5:1, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul writes from Ephesus to the church in Corinth, a port city whose culture was loose about sexual matters. Yet the report reaching him is that a man in the congregation has taken his father’s wife, probably his stepmother, a union forbidden in Leviticus 18:8.
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