1 Corinthians 5

1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

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!

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

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

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

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.

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

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?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

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.

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

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

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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!

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

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!

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

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

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

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