1 Corinthians 5

Immorality Rebuked

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

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, ⁴in the name our Lord Jesus, in your having been gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of the Lord Jesus, 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 leavens the whole lump? ⁷Cleanse out the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, as you are, unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed, 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 to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people, 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 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.

¹²For what is it to me to judge those outside? Do you not judge those inside? ¹³But God judges those outside. “Expel the wicked one from among yourselves.”