Discipline for Sexual Sin

¹It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among y’all, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the ethnic groups, that a man has his father’s wife.

²And y’all are proud! Shouldn’t y’all have mourned instead and removed the person who did this among y’all?

³For even though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and have already, as though I were present, judged the one who did this.

⁴In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when y’all are gathered together, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵you are to deliver such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶Y’all’s boasting is not excellent. Don’t y’all know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

⁷Y’all must cleanse the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch, just as you are. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

⁸Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old yeast, or with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote to y’all in my letter to have no company with sexually immoral people.

¹⁰I did not at all mean the sexually immoral of this world, or the covetous, the swindlers, or the idolaters. For then y’all would have to leave the world.

¹¹But now, I am writing to y’all not to associate with anyone who claims to be a sibling but is sexually immoral or covetous, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. Don’t even eat with such a person.

¹²For what do I have to do with judging outsiders? Don’t y’all judge those who are inside?

¹³But God will judge outsiders. “Remove the wicked person from among y’all.”[#Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7]