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CHAPTER 5-6
Presented by

Cabaleda, John Rozel Jay

Deguit, Uenice Adreana
Gadingan, Danica
Magsayo, Jay Rald
Moreno, Kristel Kay
Suasin, Angelyn
PROBLEM
 SEXUAL IMMORALITY
Chapter 5:1-2

“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality

among you, and of a kind that does not occur even
among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. And you are
proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been filled with grief and
have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?”
ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM
 SEXUAL IMMORAL
• The term sexually immoral is the ancient Greek
word porneia.
• Originally, porneia just referred to going to prostitutes; but
before New Testament times, the Jewish community used
the word to refer to any kind of extramarital sex, including
homosexuality. This is its sense in the New Testament (Guzik,
2015).
• Porneia so often appears first in New Testament "sin lists" but
not because the first Christians had a lot of "hang ups"
about sex. Instead, it is because the area of sex was one of
the most dramatic places where the ethics of Greek culture
clashed with the ethics of Jesus. Sexual immorality was an
accepted fact of life for the common person in Greek
culture, but it was not to be so among the followers of Jesus
(Guzik, 2015).
• That a man has his father's wife: Apparently,
someone was having an on-going sexual
relationship (either as married or living together) with
his stepmother (his father's wife). The woman
involved must not be a Christian, for she isn't even
addressed.
• c. And such sexual immorality as is not even named
among the Gentiles: Paul understood that this kind
of incestuous relationship would be considered
taboo even among the pagans of their culture, yet
the Corinthian Christians seem accepting of this
behavior.
 A SCHOLAR’S OPINION
• According to Dr. Peter Orr it is very obvious that the
Corinthian church was tolerating a case of blatant sexual
immorality in their midst. Not only should a church not
overlook any kind of sexual immorality, this type of
immorality was even frowned upon by the surrounding
culture: a man was sleeping with his father’s wife
• Scholars debate many of the details of this passage, but the
basic idea is clear: they were to exclude this man from their
fellowship (5:2; 13) meaning the congregation were not to
associate with him or even to eat with him (5:11). In spiritual
terms, this exclusion would involve the man being ‘handed
over to Satan’ for the ‘destruction of his flesh’ so that his
spirit might be saved on the day of the Lord (5:5). This action
would ensure that the church ‘cleansed’ itself from ‘old
leaven’ (5:7) that was in danger of infecting the entire
fellowship (5:6). Just as Paul had already passed judgment
on this man (5:3), the Corinthians were to judge him and
others like him (5:12) by expelling them from their midst
(5:13).
 LAPSES OF THIS PASSAGE

• According to Dr. Peter Orr the application of this

passage in 21st Century churches remains rare.
What Paul envisages appears to be unloving and
ineffective.
• Also There is no suggestion in this passage that the
action will definitely lead to this person’s ultimate
salvation. However, what is definitely effective is the
protection of the rest of the church from this person’s
influence
 RONALD CHARLES

• Paul cannot accept the laxity of the community in

dealing with the issue at hand. In fact, he focuses his
rebuke on the community rather than on the one
who has committed what Paul considers to be an
odious act.
 CHAPTER 5:9-11
“I have written you in my letter not to associate with
sexually immoral people - 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. But
now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone
who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy,
and idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With
such a man do not even eat.”
SCHOLAR’S OPINION
TEN LIES ABOUT GOD: AND HOW YOU
MIGHT ALREADY BE DECEIVED
BY ERWIN LUTZER
• According to this book. That passage
from Corinthians 5:9 is rather irrational.
 SOURCES

• Guzik, David (2015, December 22). Enduring Word: 1 Corinthians 5 –

Confronting Immorality in the Church.
• Lutzer, Erwin. Ten Lies About God: And How You Might Already Be
Deceived.
• Orr, Dr. Peter (2000 July).
THANK YOU!