Punishment (επιτιμια). Late word for old Greek to επιτιμιον (so papyri), from επιτιμαω, to show honour to, to award, to adjudge pe…

Sufficient to such a man. The incestuous person who had been removed from the church by Paul's direction. Paul's object here is to have hi…

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment.—Better, perhaps, this censure, or rebuke: the Greek word <…

The man referred to in these verses is almost certainly not the man guilty of incest (1 Corinthians 5; see comment on vv.10–11). Rather…

Sufficient. He now extends kindness even to the man who had sinned more grievously than the others, and on whose account his anger had bee…

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment
By this punishment is meant, the excommunication of the incestuous perso…

The apostle desires them to receive the person who had done wrong back into their communion, because he was aware of his fault and greatly afflicte…

After giving the reason for his delay—namely, to avoid causing them pain—and after telling them of his sadness, the Apostle here addresses the one …