1 Corinthians 5

Sexual Immorality Rebuked

¹It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has his father’s wife.

²You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.[#5:2 Or have you...?; #5:2 Lit puffed up; #5:2 Or have you...?]

³For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

⁴In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,[#5:4 Lit my spirit, with the power]

⁵I have decided to turn such a person over to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.[#5:5 Or that you are to turn; #5:5 Lit flesh; #5:5 One early ms Lord Jesus]

⁶Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?[#5:6 I.e., fermented dough]

⁷Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

⁸Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people;

¹⁰I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world.

¹¹But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person.[#5:11 Lit now; #5:11 Or have written; #5:11 Lit together if anyone called a brother is]

¹²For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?

¹³But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the evil person from among yourselves .[#5:13 Or will judge]