1 Corinthians 5

1 I hear reports that sexual immorality is happening among you, immorality that even the foreigners don't practice. A man is living with his father's wife!

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as not even pagans talk about—that someone has his father's wife!

2 You are so proud of yourselves! Shouldn't you have wept with sadness, and excluded the man who did this?

And you are puffed up and not even grieved, so as to exclude the one who has done this deed from your fellowship.

3 Even though I'm not physically present there, I am there in spirit and just as if I were there I've already made my judgment of the one who has done this.

For I indeed, as present in spirit though absent in body, have already judged the one who created this situation, as though I were present:

4 When you meet together in the name of the Lord Jesus I'll be there with you in spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus.

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you and my spirit being together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 Hand over this man to Satan so his sinful nature may be destroyed and he himself be saved on the day of the Lord.

we must hand such a one over to Satan for a destruction of the ‘flesh’, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus.

6 You shouldn't be proud about this. Don't you know that it only takes a little yeast to make the whole batch of dough rise?

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

7 Get rid of this old yeast so that you can be a new batch of dough to make bread without yeast. Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.

Therefore purge out the old leaven, so that you can be a new batch, like you are, without yeast. Especially since Christ our Passover has been sacrificed in our place.

8 So let us celebrate this festival, not with old yeast or the yeast of evil and wickedness, but with the bread made without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

So then let us observe the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened loaves of sincerity and truth.

9 In my previous letter I wrote that you should not associate with immoral people.

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with fornicators—

10 I wasn't referring to the immoral people of this world, those who are greedy and cheat others, or those who worship idols, otherwise you'd have to leave this world!

not of course the fornicators of this world, or the greedy, or the swindlers, or the idolaters; since then you would have to exit the world!

11 What I meant when I wrote was that you shouldn't associate with anyone who is called a Christian who is immoral or greedy or worships idols; or who is abusive or a drunkard or who cheats others. Don't even share a meal with anyone like that!

But now I write you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a brother who is a fornicator, or greedy, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such.

12 It's not my place to judge those outside the church. But shouldn't you judge those who are inside the church?

Now just why should it be up to me to judge those who are outside? Will you not judge those who are inside?

13 God judges those that are outside the church. “Expel the wicked from among you.”

Those who are outside God will judge, and you must exclude the wicked one from among you.