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 immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen - that a man has taken 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,

Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

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, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing.

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 gathered together, and my spirit is with you together with the power of our 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.

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his 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 glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

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,

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

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 let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in the letter, not to keep company with whoremongers—

I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral.

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 that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

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 what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so- called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

12 for what have I also to judge those outside? Do you not judge those within?

What have I to do with the judging of outsiders? Must not you judge those who are within the church, while God judges outsiders?

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

Expel that wicked man from among you.