1 Corinthians 5
1 It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, of a kind not even found among the Gentiles: someone has his father's wife.
2 And you are full of pride! Shouldn't you instead have mourned, so that the one who did this might be removed from among you?
3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit, and I have already judged the one who did this in this way, as though I were present.
4 In the name of the Lord Jesus, when you are gathered together, with my spirit, and with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
6 Your pride is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
7 Clean out the old yeast, so that you may be a new batch, as you are already unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.
8 So let us celebrate the feast, not with old yeast, nor with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10 I did not mean, in general, the sexually immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.
11 But now I have written to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother yet is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
12 For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Aren't you to judge those inside?
13 God will judge those outside. Remove the wicked person from among yourselves.
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