1 Corinthians 5

1 On all hands, there is reported to be among you—fornication, and such fornication as this—which, not among the nations, [is found], —as that one should have, his father’s wife: —

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, a kind of fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for a man has his father's wife.

2 And, ye, have become puffed up, and have not rather mourned, in order that he might be removed out of your midst, who, this deed, hath wrought.

And you are puffed up! You should have mourned instead and removed the man who did this from among you.

3 For, I, indeed, —being absent in the body, but present in the spirit, have already judged, as present, him who, thus, this thing hath perpetrated: —

For though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the man who did this, just as though I were present.

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

So when you are gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such a one as this, unto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, —that, the spirit, may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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

6 Unseemly, is your boast! Know ye not that, a little leaven, doth leaven, the whole of the lump?

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

7 Purge ye out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, —even as ye are unleavened; for, our passover, hath even been sacrificed—Christ:

Purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump of dough, since you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed for us.

8 So then, let us be keeping the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of baseness and wickedness, —but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in my letter—not to be mixing yourselves up with fornicators; —

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with fornicators.

10 Not at all, [meaning] the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters, —else had ye been obliged, in that case, to go out of the world!

Yet I certainly did not mean the fornicators of this world or the greedy or swindlers or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of the world.

11 But, now, I have written unto you not to be mixing yourselves up, —if anyone named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one as this, not so much, as to be eating together,

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who is named as a brother if he is a fornicator or greedy, an idolater or a reviler, a drunkard or a swindler; do not even eat with such a man.

12 For what have I to do to be judging them who are without? Do, ye, not judge, them who are within,

For what have I to do with judging those who are outside the church? Do you not judge those who are inside the church?

13 Whereas, them who are without, God, judgeth? Remove ye the wicked man from among, yourselves.

God will judge those who are outside the church. “Therefore you must remove the evil person from among you.”