1 Corinthians 5:1-13
“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.
2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into
mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been
doing this?
3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with
you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already
passed judgment in the name of OUR LORD JESUS 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 to Satan for the destruction of the
flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of THE LORD.
6 Your boasting is not
good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of
dough?
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.
8 Therefore let us keep the
Festival, not with the old bread leavened with 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 not at all meaning the people of
this world 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
but is
sexually
immoral or greedy,
an
idolater or slanderer,
a
drunkard or swindler.
Do not
even eat with such people.
12 What business is it of mine to
judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
13 GOD will judge those outside.
‘Expel
the wicked person from among you.’"
