< 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 fornication among you, and such fornication as not even pagans talk about—that someone 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 puffed up and not even grieved, so as to exclude the one who has done this deed from your fellowship.
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:
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 in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ—you being gathered together, also my spirit—with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you and my spirit being together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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.
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 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 yeast leavens 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,
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 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.
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 I wrote to you in the letter, not to keep company with whoremongers—
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with fornicators—
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—
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 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 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 for what have I also to judge those outside? Do you not judge those within?
Now just why should it be up to me to judge those who are outside? Will you not judge those who are inside?
13 And judge those without God; and put away the evil from among yourselves.
Those who are outside God will judge, and you must exclude the wicked one from among you.