1 Corinthians 5

1 Corinthians 5

Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and the sort of sexual immorality that is not found even among gentiles, for a man is living with his father’s wife.[#Lev 18.8; Deut 22.30; 2 Cor 7.12]

2And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?

3For I, though absent in body, am present in spirit, and as if present I have already pronounced judgment

4in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled and my spirit is present with the power of our Lord Jesus,[#2 Cor 2.10; 2 Thess 3.6; #5.4 Or on the man who has done such a thing in the name of the Jesus]

5you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.[#1 Tim 1.20; #5.5 Other ancient authorities add Jesus]

6Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?[#Gal 5.9; Jas 4.16]

7Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.[#1 Pet 1.19]

8Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.[#Deut 16.3; Mk 8.15]

Sexual Immorality Must Be Judged

9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral persons,

10not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of the world.[#1 Cor 10.27]

11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy or an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler. Do not even eat with such a one.

12For what have I to do with judging those outside? Are you not judges of those who are inside?[#Mk 4.11; 1 Cor 6.1–4]

13God will judge those outside. “Drive out the wicked person from among you.”[#Deut 13.5; 21.21]

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