1 Corinthians 5

Sexual Immorality Rebuked

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has 1his father’s wife. 22You 3have become 4arrogant and 5have not 6mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be 7removed from your midst.

3For I, on my part, though 8absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present. 49In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and 10I with you in spirit, 11with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5I have decided 12to 13turn such a person over to 14Satan for the destruction of his 15body, so that his spirit may be saved on 16the day of the 17Lord.

618Your boasting is not good. 19Do you not know that 20a little 21leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our 22Passover also has been sacrificed. 8Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, 23not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9I wrote to you in my letter 24not to associate with sexually immoral people; 10I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with 25idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. 11But 26actually, I 27wrote to you not to associate 28with any so-called 29brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or 30an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a person. 12For what business of mine is it to judge 31outsiders? 32Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13But those who are outside, God 33judges. 34Remove the evil person from among yourselves.