Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

New American Standard Bible

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.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.

International Standard Version

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

A Conservative Version

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

American Standard Version

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.

Amplified

It is actually reported [everywhere] that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is condemned even among the [unbelieving] Gentiles: that someone has [an intimate relationship with] his father’s wife.

An Understandable Version

It has actually been reported [to me] that there is a case of sexual immorality among you that is unheard of, even among the [unconverted] Gentiles. One of you is having sex with his stepmother.

Anderson New Testament

It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles that a certain one has his father's wife.

Common New Testament

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: a man has his father's wife.

Daniel Mace New Testament

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

Darby Translation

It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

Godbey New Testament

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father.

Goodspeed New Testament

Immorality is actually notorious among you, and immorality of a kind unknown even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife.

John Wesley New Testament

It is commonly reported, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as is not even named among the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

Julia Smith Translation

In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.

Modern King James verseion

On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

Moffatt New Testament

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

Montgomery New Testament

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!

NET Bible

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife.

New Heart English Bible

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

Noyes New Testament

It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife.

Sawyer New Testament

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

The Emphasized Bible

On all hands, there is reported to be among you - fornication, and such fornication as this - which, not among the nations, is found , - as that one should have, his father's wife: -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Twentieth Century New Testament

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

Webster

It is reported commonly that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Weymouth New Testament

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

Williams New Testament

A case of immorality is reported as actually existing among you, an immorality unheard of even among the heathen that a man cohabits with his father's wife.

World English Bible

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

Worrell New Testament

Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!

Worsley New Testament

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

Youngs Literal Translation

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
It is reported
ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

ὅλως 
Holos 
Usage: 3

πορνεία 
Porneia 
Usage: 21

ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

τοιοῦτος 
Toioutos 
Usage: 51

πορνεία 
Porneia 
Usage: 21

as is
ὅστις ἥτις ὅ6τι 
hostis 
Usage: 112

not so much as
οὐδέ 
Oude 
neither, nor, not, no not, not so much as, then not, not tr,
Usage: 83

ὀνομάζω 
Onomazo 
Usage: 10

the Gentiles
ἔθνος 
Ethnos 
Usage: 132

ὥστε 
hoste 
Usage: 72

one
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

his

which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

References

Context Readings

Immoral Behavior And Church Discipline

1 It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife. 2 And 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.


Cross References

Leviticus 18:8

And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

Deuteronomy 22:30

A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

Deuteronomy 27:20

Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

2 Corinthians 12:21

And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

Genesis 35:22

Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

Genesis 37:2

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

Genesis 49:4

But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

Leviticus 20:11

And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

2 Samuel 16:22

So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

2 Samuel 20:3

And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

1 Chronicles 5:1

And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.

Jeremiah 2:33

With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.

Ezekiel 16:47

Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.

Ezekiel 16:51-52

And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.

Ezekiel 22:10

In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

Amos 2:7

Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

Acts 15:20

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

1 Corinthians 1:11

Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

1 Corinthians 6:18

Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

Ephesians 5:3

But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

Colossians 3:5

Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

1 Thessalonians 4:7

Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

Revelation 2:21

And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.

Revelation 21:8

But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

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