1 Corinthians 5

1 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.

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.

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

And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he that committed this deed might be separated from among you.

3 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.

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,

4 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,

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

5 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.

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.

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

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 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.

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.

8 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.

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.

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

I wrote to you in that letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

10 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.

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.

11 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.

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.

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

For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?

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

But those who are without, God will judge. Do ye put away that bad man from among yourselves.