OEBcth - I Corinthians - 5

5:1  There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles — a man, I hear, is living with his father’s wife!

5:2  Instead of grieving over it and taking steps for the expulsion of the man who has done this thing, is it possible that you are still puffed up?

5:3  For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, on the man who has acted in this way.

5:4  I have decided — having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us —

5:5  to deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the day of the Lord.

5:6  Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?

5:7  Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough — free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our passover lamb is already sacrificed — Christ himself;

5:8  therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

5:9  I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people —

5:10  not, of course, meaning people of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

5:11  But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with anyone who, although a follower of Christ in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping — no, not even to sit down to eat with such people.

5:12  What have I to do with judging those outside the church? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the church,

5:13  while God judges those who are outside? ‘Put away the wicked from among you.’