1 Corinthians 5

1 There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles – a man, I hear, is living with his father’s wife!

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

2 Instead of grieving over it and taking steps for the expulsion of the man who has done this thing, is it possible that you are still puffed up?

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

3 For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, on the man who has acted in this way.

For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.

4 I have decided – having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us –

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 to deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the day of the Lord.

to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your boasting is unseemly. Don’t you know that even a little yeast leavens all the dough?

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

7 Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough – free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our passover lamb is already sacrificed – Christ himself;

Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.

8 therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.

9 I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people –

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators,

10 not, of course, meaning people of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world.

11 But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with anyone who, although a follower of Christ in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping – no, not even to sit down to eat with such people.

But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

12 What have I to do with judging those outside the church? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the church,

For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside?

13 while God judges those who are outside? Put away the wicked from among you.

But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.