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1 Corinthians 5
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Remove Sexually Immoral People From Your Church: A Little Leaven Leavens The Lump

5 Sexual-immorality is actually being heard-of among you— and such sexual immorality which is not even among the Gentiles, that someone has[a] the wife of his father. 2 And you are puffed-up, and did not mourn instead, in order that the one having done this deed might be taken out of your midst. 3 For indeed I, being absent in the body but present in the[b] spirit, have already judged— as-though being present— the one having thus committed this thing. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, you and my spirit having been gathered-together, with[c] the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to hand-over such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. 6 Your boast is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Clean-out the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened. For indeed, our Passover [Lamb] was sacrificed[d]— Christ. 8 So then let us celebrate-the-feast not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of badness[e] and evilness, but with the unleavened loaves of purity[f] and truth.

Do Not Even Associate With So-Called Brothers Who Continue To Disobey God

9 I wrote you in the letter[g] not to associate-with[h] sexually-immoral ones— 10 not at-all meaning with the sexually-immoral ones of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers[i], or with idolaters, because then you would have to go out of the world! 11 But now[j], I wrote[k] to you not to associate-with them if anyone being named a brother should be a sexually-immoral one, or a greedy one, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler— not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what do I have to do with judging the ones outside? Are you not judging the ones inside? 13 But God judges[l] the ones outside. Remove[m] the evil one from-among you yourselves.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:1 That is, has his step mother as his wife.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:3 That is, my spirit, as in v 4.
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:4 Or, along-with.
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:7 Or, slaughtered, killed. Paul is applying the Passover celebration to the Corinthians.
  5. 1 Corinthians 5:8 Or, malice.
  6. 1 Corinthians 5:8 Or, sincerity.
  7. 1 Corinthians 5:9 That is, some previous letter; or, this letter.
  8. 1 Corinthians 5:9 Or, keep company with.
  9. 1 Corinthians 5:10 Or, robbers, plunderers.
  10. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Or, But as-it-is.
  11. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Or, did write.
  12. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Or, will judge.
  13. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Or, Purge, Expel.
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1 Corinthians 5
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Dealing With a Case of Incest

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.(A) 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning(B) and have put out of your fellowship(C) the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit.(D) As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus(E) on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over(F) to Satan(G) for the destruction of the flesh,[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.(H)

6 Your boasting is not good.(I) Don’t you know that a little yeast(J) leavens the whole batch of dough?(K) 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.(L) 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread(M) of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate(N) with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world(O) who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[c](P) but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater(Q) or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.(R)

12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside(S) the church? Are you not to judge those inside?(T) 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”[d](U)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or of his body
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 8:11, 13.
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Deut. 13:5; 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7
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