1 Corinthians 5

1 It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even 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 did not rather mourn, so that he that committed this deed might be separated 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, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought 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, when you and my spirit with you are assembled together, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

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 a man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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 Cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ.

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 So then let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor 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 to you in that letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

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

10 certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must 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 this is what I wrote you, not to keep company with any one called a brother, if he be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not even 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 with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who 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 those who are without, God will judge. Do ye put away that bad man from among yourselves.

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