1 Corinthians

1611 King James Version (KJV)

1 Corinthians 5:1

“It is reported commonly, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as is not so much as named amongst the Gentiles, that one should haue his fathers wife.”

1611 King James Version (KJV)




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Other Translations for 1 Corinthians 5:1

It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
- King James Version

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife.
- New American Standard Version (1995)