1 Corinthians 5 · Verse 2

1 Corinthians 5:2

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Corinthians 5:2, King James Version

1 Corinthians 5:2 in other translations

BSBAnd you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
WEBYou are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
ASVAnd ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
YLTand 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,
DARBYAnd ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.
BBEAnd in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.
WebsterAnd ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

What does 1 Corinthians 5:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. puffed up--with your own wisdom and knowledge, and the eloquence of your favorite teachers: at a time when ye ought to be "mourning" at the scandal caused to religion by the incest. Paul mourned because they did not mourn (2Co 2:4). We ought to mourn over the transgressions of others, and repent of our own (2Co 12:21) [Bengel]. that--ye have not felt such mourning as would lead to the result that, &c. taken away from among you--by excommunication. The incestuous person was hereby brought to bitter repentance, in the interval between the sending of the first and second Epistles (2Co 2:5-10). Excommunication in the Christian Church corresponded to that in the Jewish synagogue, in there being a lighter and heavier form: the latter an utter separation from church fellowship and the Lord's house, the former exclusion from the Lord's Supper only but not from the Church.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 2. And ye are puffed up. 1Cor 4:18. You are filled with pride, and with a vain conceit of your own wisdom and purity, notwithstanding the existence of this enormous wickedness in your church. This does not mean that they were puffed up, or proud on account of the existence of this wickedness, but they were filled with pride notwithstanding, or in spite of it. They ought to have been a troubled people. They should have mourned; and should have given their first attention to the removal of the evil. But instead of this, they had given indulgence to proud feeling, and had become elated with a vain confidence in their spiritual purity. Men are always elated and proud when they have the least occasion for it.

And have not rather mourned, etc. Have not rather been so afflicted and troubled as to take the proper means for removing the offence. The word mourn here is taken in that large sense. Ye have not been so much afflicted--so troubled with the existence of this wickedness, as to take the proper measures to remove the offender. Acts of discipline in the church should always commence with mourning that there is occasion for it. It should not be anger, or pride, or revenge, or party feeling, which prompt to it. It should be deep grief that there is occasion for it; and tender compassion for the offender.

Might be taken away. By excommunication. He should not, while he continues in this state, be allowed to remain in your communion.

(b) "mourned" 2Cor 7:7

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Ye are puffed up - Ye are full of strife and contention relative to your parties and favourite teachers, and neglect the discipline of the Church. Had you considered the greatness of this crime, ye would have rather mourned, and have put away this flagrant transgressor from among you. Taken away from among you - Ἱνα εξαρθη εκ μεσου υμων. This is supposed by some to refer to the punishment of death, by others to excommunication. The Christian Church was at this time too young to have those forms of excommunication which were practised in succeeding centuries. Probably no more is meant than a simple disowning of the person, accompanied with the refusal to admit him to the sacred ordinances, or to have any intercourse or connection with him.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Corinthians 5:1-8

Chapter Outline The apostle blames the Corinthians for connivance at an incestuous person; (1-8) and directs their behaviour towards those guilty of scandalous crimes. (9-13) Verses 1-8 The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, winked at by the Corinthians. Party spirit, and a false notion of Christian liberty, seem to have saved the offender from censure. Grievous indeed is it that crimes should sometimes be committed…

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1 Corinthians 5:2 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

καὶkaiAndG2532
ὑμεῖςhumeisyou yourselvesG4771
πεφυσιωμένοιpephusiōmenoipuffed upG5448
ἐστὲesteareG1510
καὶkaiandG2532
οὐχὶouchinotG3780
μᾶλλονmallonratherG3123
ἐπενθήσατεepenthēsatemournedG3996
ἵναinaso thatG2443
ἀρθῇarthēamay be takenG142
ἐκekout ofG1537
μέσουmesoumidstG3319
ὑμῶνhumōnof youG4771
ὁhothe [one]G3588
τὸtotheG3588
ἔργονergondeedG2041
τοῦτοtoutothisG3778
πράξας;praxashaving performed?G4238

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Corinthians 5:2

  • 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. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:7-11

    And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. …

  • 1 Corinthians 5:13

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

  • 2 Corinthians 12:21

    And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

  • Ezra 10:1-6

    Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it. …

  • 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. And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice. And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God, …

  • Ezekiel 9:4

    And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

  • Ezekiel 9:6

    Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

  • 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.

  • 1 Corinthians 4:6-8

    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. For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

  • Psalms 119:136

    Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

  • Jeremiah 13:17

    But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
ye are.
6; 4:6-8,18
mourned.
Nu 25:6; 2Ki 22:19; Ezr 9:2-6; 10:1-6; Ps 119:136; Jer 13:17
Eze 9:4,6; 2Co 7:7,9-11; 12:21
might.
5,7,13; Re 2:20-22

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Context

  • 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.

  • 1 Corinthians 5:2

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

  • 1 Corinthians 5:3

    For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

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1 Corinthians 5:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y vosotros estáis hinchados, y no más bien tuvisteis duelo, para que fuese quitado de en medio de vosotros el que hizo tal obra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et vous êtes enflés d’orgueil, et vous n’avez pas plutôt mené deuil, afin que celui qui a commis cette action soit ôté du milieu de vous.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ihr seid aufgeblasen und habt nicht vielmehr Leid getragen, auf daß der, welcher diese Tat begangen hat, aus eurer Mitte hinweggetan würde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et vos inflati estis: et non magis luctum habuistis ut tollatur de medio vestrum qui hoc opus fecit.