Montgomery - I Corinthians - 5

5:1  It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen - that a man has taken his father’s wife!

5:2  Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

5:3  For I, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing.

5:4  When you are gathered together, and my spirit is with you together with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5:5  I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

5:6  Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

5:7  Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

5:8  So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

5:9  I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral.

5:10  Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

5:11  But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so- called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

5:12  What have I to do with the judging of outsiders? Must not you judge those who are within the church, while God judges outsiders?

5:13  Expel that wicked man from among you.