1 Corinthians 5

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind not even found among the Gentiles: a man has his father’s wife. And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this would be removed from among you? For though absent in body but present in spirit, I have already decided, as though I were present, concerning the one who did this, in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you and my spirit are gathered together with the power of our Lord Jesus, to hand such a man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new batch, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed. So 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. I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people, not meaning altogether the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would have to leave the world. But now I have written to you not to associate with anyone called a brother who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater, a reviler, a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside whom you judge? God judges those outside. “Remove the evil person from among yourselves.”

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