1 Corinthians 5

1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the nations, that one has his father's wife.

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

2 You are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

3 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

I for my part, present with you in spirit although absent in body, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has so acted.

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are all assembled and my spirit is with you, together with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his body, that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?

7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed for us.

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind; for in fact you are free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ.

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

Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators;

10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols. For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out of the world altogether.

11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Do not even eat with such a person.

But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.

12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are within?

For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church

13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? Remove the wicked man from among you.