1 Corinthians 5

1 It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles―that a certain one has his father’s wife.

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!

2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

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?

3 For I, indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing;

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, upon the man who has acted in this way.

4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit have come together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

5 that we 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.

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.

6 Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

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

7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are without leaven; for Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed for us.

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;

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 purity and truth.

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.

9 I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;

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

10 yet without the lest allusion to the lewd, or the covetous, or the extortioners, or the idolaters of this world; for then you must go out of the world;

not, of course, meaning men 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.

11 but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with any one who, although a Brother in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping — no, not even to sit at table with such people.

12 For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within?

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

13 But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.

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