1 Corinthians 5

1 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations — as that one hath the wife of the father! —

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 and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

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 indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought 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 Christ — ye being gathered together, also my spirit — with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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 Not good [is] your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

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 cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed — Christ,

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 so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food 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 did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers —

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

10 and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of 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 and now, I did write to you not to keep company with [him], if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner — with such a one not even to eat together;

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 also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?

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

13 and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

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