Hi Marques, Kat, Carlos31, Phil3:10, Kathy,
Amazing what we see when we read The Scriptures; Paul said: (A little leaven leavens the whole lump)
These Scriptures speak i believe directly of those that have another gospel which is no Gospel (Good News).
The subjects being addressed
physically (circumcision and fornication) Spiritually how devious and insidious a little bit of wrong information can be, if allowed to survive it will corrupt everything it touches.
Kat i was reading that very email answer from Ray to Margaret this morning, i got it again. Galations 5: 7-10
7-You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
8-This persuasion comes not of him that calls you.
9-A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
10-I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he be.
11-And I, brothers, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offense of the cross ceased.
12-I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
13-For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14-For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
1Corinthians 5: 1-8
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.
2-And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3-For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,
4-In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5-To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6-Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7-Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8-Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
george.