Haweis - I Corinthians - 5

5:1  IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

5:2  And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you.

5:3  For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so done this thing;

5:4  in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:5  to deliver such a one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

5:6  Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

5:7  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

5:9  I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators.

5:10  Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters: for then must ye indeed go out of the world.

5:11  But now I have written unto you not to associate with him, if any man, professing to be a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.

5:12  For what call have I to judge those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within the church?

5:13  But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away that wicked man from among yourselves.