1 Corinthians 5

1 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations—as that one has the wife of the father!

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 you are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

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 indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so worked this thing:

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 in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ—you being gathered together, also my spirit—with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 up such a one to Satan for the 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 glorying [is] not good; have you not known 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 Cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, according as you are unleavened, for our Passover was sacrificed for us also—Christ,

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 we may keep the celebration, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil 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 wrote to you in the letter, not to keep company with whoremongers—

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

10 and certainly not with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing you ought then to go forth 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 and now, I wrote to you not to keep company with [him], if anyone, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—do not even eat together with such a one;

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 also to judge those outside? Do you not judge those within?

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

13 And judge those without God; and put away the evil from among yourselves.

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