1 Corinthians 5:2 And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

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New International Version
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?

New Living Translation
You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship.

English Standard Version
And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

Berean Standard Bible
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

Berean Literal Bible
And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that the one having done this deed might be taken out of your midst!

King James Bible
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

New King James Version
And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

New American Standard Bible
You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

NASB 1995
You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

NASB 1977
And you have become arrogant, and have not mourned instead, in order that the one who had done this deed might be removed from your midst.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you have become puffed up and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

Amplified Bible
And you are proud and arrogant! You should have mourned in shame so that the man who has done this [disgraceful] thing would be removed from your fellowship!

Christian Standard Bible
And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief and remove from your congregation the one who did this?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation.

American Standard Version
And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

Contemporary English Version
You are proud, when you ought to feel bad enough to chase away anyone who acts like this.

English Revised Version
And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You're being arrogant when you should have been more upset about this. If you had been upset, the man who did this would have been removed from among you.

Good News Translation
How, then, can you be proud? On the contrary, you should be filled with sadness, and the man who has done such a thing should be expelled from your fellowship.

International Standard Version
And you are being arrogant instead of being filled with grief and seeing to it that the man who did this is removed from among you.

Majority Standard Bible
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

NET Bible
And you are proud! Shouldn't you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

New Heart English Bible
You are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

Weymouth New Testament
And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

World English Bible
You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
And you are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

Berean Literal Bible
And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that the one having done this deed might be taken out of your midst!

Young's Literal Translation
and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

Smith's Literal Translation
And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you.

Catholic Translations

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And yet you are inflated, and you have not instead been grieved, so that he who has done this thing would be taken away from your midst.

New American Bible
And you are inflated with pride. Should you not rather have been sorrowful? The one who did this deed should be expelled from your midst.

New Revised Standard Version
And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?

Translations from Aramaic

Lamsa Bible
But instead of boasting as you have, rather had you sat down mourning that he who has done this deed has not been removed from among you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you are inflated and have not rather sat in mourning, that whoever has committed this crime would be taken out from your midst.

NT Translations

Anderson New Testament
And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

Godbey New Testament
And have you been inflated, and have not rather mourned, that the one having done this work may be taken from your midst?

Haweis New Testament
And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you.

Mace New Testament
this you have made a matter of levity, instead of being concern'd in discarding him that has done such an action.

Weymouth New Testament
And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

Worrell New Testament
And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

Worsley New Testament
And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

Audio Bible

Context

Immorality Rebuked
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. 2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this? 3Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.…

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Cross References

Matthew 18:17
If 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.

2 Corinthians 2:6-7
The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him. / So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

Galatians 6:1
Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.

2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.

2 Thessalonians 3:14-15
Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed. / Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

1 Timothy 1:20
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

Titus 3:10
Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

Romans 16:17
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.

1 Timothy 5:20
But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.

2 Corinthians 7:11
Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Leviticus 18:29
Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 13:5
Such 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.

Deuteronomy 17:7
The 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.

Deuteronomy 19:19
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 21:21
Then 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.

Treasury of Scripture

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

ye are.

1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 4:6-8,18
And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another…

mourned.

Numbers 25:6
And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

2 Kings 22:19
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

Ezra 9:2-6
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass…

might.

1 Corinthians 5:5,7,13
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus…

Revelation 2:20-22
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols…

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1 Corinthians 5

1. The sexual immorality person,
6. is cause rather of shame unto them than of rejoicing.
7. The old leaven is to be purged out.
10. Heinous offenders are to be shamed and avoided.

Berean Study Bible

And you are proud!
The Greek word for "proud" here is "πεφυσιωμένοι" (pephysiōmenoi), which conveys a sense of being puffed up or inflated with pride. In the context of the Corinthian church, this pride is not a commendable trait but a spiritual blindness to sin within their community. Historically, Corinth was a city known for its wealth and moral laxity, and the church there struggled with the influence of its surrounding culture. This pride indicates a failure to recognize the gravity of sin and a misplaced confidence in their spiritual status. From a conservative Christian perspective, this serves as a warning against complacency and the danger of allowing cultural norms to overshadow biblical truth.

Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief
The phrase "stricken with grief" translates from the Greek "ἐπενθήσατε" (epenthēsate), which means to mourn or lament deeply. This mourning is not just an emotional response but a call to spiritual repentance and recognition of sin's destructive power. In the biblical context, mourning over sin is a sign of true repentance and a heart aligned with God's holiness. The conservative Christian view emphasizes the importance of grieving over sin as a necessary step towards restoration and purity within the church body.

and have removed from your fellowship
The Greek term "ἐξαρθῆναι" (exarthēnai) means to remove or expel. This action is not taken lightly but is a necessary measure to maintain the sanctity and purity of the church. Historically, the early church practiced church discipline to protect the community from sin's corrupting influence and to encourage repentance and reconciliation. From a conservative standpoint, this removal is an act of love and obedience to God's command to uphold holiness within the church, reflecting the seriousness with which God views sin.

the man who did this?
The phrase refers to an individual engaged in egregious sin, specifically sexual immorality, as detailed earlier in the chapter. The Greek "τὸν τὸ ἔργον τοῦτο πράξαντα" (ton to ergon touto praxanta) highlights the specific nature of the sin and the individual responsible. In the scriptural context, this is not merely a personal failing but a public scandal that affects the entire church body. The conservative Christian perspective underscores the need for accountability and the responsibility of the church to address sin openly and decisively, always with the goal of restoration and healing for the sinner.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(2) And ye are puffed up.--Better, And are ye puffed up? &c. We have instances of similar sentences beginning with "and," Luke 10:29. The Apostle cannot mean that they actually gloried in this act of sin, but that their temper of mind was of that kind which he has already described in the earlier chapters, puffing themselves up, one against another, in party rivalry, instead of being united in one common grief by this common cause, which would lead them as one man to remove from among them the person who had done this deed.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - And ye are puffed up; perhaps rather, And have ye been puffed up? The "ye," being expressed m the Greek, is emphatic - "ye, the very persons whose horror ought to have been most intense." It might seem inconceivable that any community calling itself Christian would fall so low as to be puffed up at the existence of such an offence among them. There is, indeed, a subtle and close connection between arrogance and sensuality, and beth are sometimes fatally linked to the conceit of religious knowledge without the reality. But not even a heathen community could have been "puffed up" on such grounds. Yet the Corinthians may have been "puffed up" with the conceited reasons which induced them to leave the offence unrebuked, because they boasted the possession of some spurious "knowledge." Perhaps they bad seized some deadly notion of antinomian liberty, such as has existed at times among Gnostic sects, like the Ophites in ancient and the Anabaptists in modern days. Perhaps they sheltered themselves under the arrogant Jewish rule that all a man's conditions of life were altered by becoming a proselyte - that old relationships were for him entirely abolished; for the Jews held that a prosolyte was like "a newborn child," and had begun life a second time (Bechoroth, f. 47, 1), and might marry any of his relatives. Such miserable sophisms would acquire fresh force from the universal impurity with which Corinthian society was stained, and which rendered it necessary for St. Paul in these Epistles to utter his most solemn warnings against every kind of sensuality (1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:15-18; 1 Corinthians 10:8; 1 Corinthians 15:83, 34; 2 Corinthians 5:11, etc.). But besides all this, St. Paul's remark does not necessarily mean that their "inflation" was exclusively connected with Gnostic excesses, which bore on the case of this offender. It may mean, "Here is a gross fault in the midst of you, and yet - not propter hoc, but cum hoc - the characteristic of your religious factions is pride and conceit." This was indeed Κορινθιάζεσθαι, "to play the Corinthian," in the worst sense, of that proverbial taunt. Possibly the prominence or wealth of the offender may have led to a more easy condonation of his crime. Exculpatory sophism may have been suggested by self interest. That; i.e. in order that, as a result of your godly sorrow, the offender might be removed from your midst. He that hath done this deed. The language of St. Paul, as always, is as delicate as clearness would allow. The fact that the verb is in the past aorist may perhaps allow us to hope that the offence, at any rate in its most aggravated forms, had ceased to be committed. The manner of the crime ("in such a way") seems to have been an aggravation of the crime itself. In this indignant verse we have, as Stanley says, "the burst of the storm, the mutterings of which had been heard in the earlier chapters." So intense was the effect produced by St. Paul's stern severity, that a great part of the Second Epistle had to be devoted to allaying the agitation which these words had excited (see especially 2 Corinthians 7:8-12).

Parallel Commentaries ...

Greek

And
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

you
ὑμεῖς (hymeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

are
ἐστέ (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

proud!
πεφυσιωμένοι (pephysiōmenoi)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5448: From phusis in the primary sense of blowing; to inflate, i.e. make proud.

Shouldn’t you
οὐχὶ (ouchi)
Adverb
Strong's 3780: By no means, not at all. Intensive of ou; not indeed.

rather
μᾶλλον (mallon)
Adverb
Strong's 3123: More, rather. Neuter of the comparative of the same as malista; more) or rather.

have been stricken with grief
ἐπενθήσατε (epenthēsate)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 3996: To mourn, lament, feel guilt. From penthos; to grieve.

[and]
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

removed
ἀρθῇ (arthē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 142: To raise, lift up, take away, remove.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

[fellowship]
μέσου (mesou)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 3319: Middle, in the middle, between, in the midst of. From meta; middle (neuter) noun).

the [man who]
ὁ (ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

did
πράξας (praxas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4238: To do, perform, accomplish; be in any condition, i.e. I fare; I exact, require.

this?
τοῦτο (touto)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

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NT Letters: 1 Corinthians 5:2 You are puffed up and didn't rather (1 Cor. 1C iC 1Cor i cor icor)