1 Corinthians 5

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Immorality Rebuked

¹It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

¹Sexual immorality is actually heard of among you, and sexual immorality such as is not even among the nations, so as for one to have the wife of the father.

²And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

²And you are puffed up! And did you not rather mourn, so that the one having done this work might be removed out of your midst?

³Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

³For I indeed, being absent in body but being present in spirit, have already judged the one having thus carried this out, as being present,

⁴When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus^a and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

⁴in the name our Lord Jesus, in your having been gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of the Lord Jesus,

⁵hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.^a

⁵to deliver up such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

⁶Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

⁶Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

⁷Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

⁷Cleanse out the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, as you are, unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed,

⁸Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

⁸so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, not with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Expel the Immoral Brother

⁹I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

⁹I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people,

¹⁰I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

¹⁰not altogether with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the coveters and swindlers, or idolaters—since then you would need to go out from the world.

¹¹But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

¹¹But now I wrote to you not to associate with anyone being named a brother if he may be sexually immoral or a coveter, or an idolater or a reviler, or a drunkard or a swindler—with such a one not even to eat.

¹²What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

¹²For what is it to me to judge those outside? Do you not judge those inside?

¹³God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”^a

¹³But God judges those outside. “Expel the wicked one from among yourselves.”