1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you,
and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one
has his father’s wife. 2 You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn,
that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you. 3 For I
most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already,
as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. 4 In the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my
spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 are to deliver such a
one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved
in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast
leavens the whole lump? 7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a
new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover,
has been sacrificed in our place. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not
with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in my letter to
have no company with sexual sinners; 10 yet not at all meaning with the
sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with
idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. 11 But as it
is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who
is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner. Don’t even eat with such a person. 12 For
what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you
judge those who are within? 13 But those who are outside, God judges. “Put
away the wicked man from among yourselves.”*1
1 Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7
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