1 Corinthians 5

1 It is universally reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

3 For I, [as] absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

4 [to deliver, ] in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:

When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

5 to deliver him, [I say, ] [being] such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

8 so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

9 I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

10 not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since [then] ye should go out of the world.

I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

11 But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him]; with such a one not even to eat.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

12 For what have I [to do] with judging those outside also? ye, do not ye judge them that are within?

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

13 But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.

God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”