1 Corinthians 5

1 I hear reports that sexual immorality is happening among you, immorality that even the foreigners don't practice. A man is living with his father's wife!

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the nations, that one has his father's wife.

2 You are so proud of yourselves! Shouldn't you have wept with sadness, and excluded the man who did this?

You are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

3 Even though I'm not physically present there, I am there in spirit and just as if I were there I've already made my judgment of the one who has done this.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

4 When you meet together in the name of the Lord Jesus I'll be there with you in spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus.

In the name of our Lord Jesus, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5 Hand over this man to Satan so his sinful nature may be destroyed and he himself be saved on the day of the Lord.

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

6 You shouldn't be proud about this. Don't you know that it only takes a little yeast to make the whole batch of dough rise?

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

7 Get rid of this old yeast so that you can be a new batch of dough to make bread without yeast. Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed for us.

8 So let us celebrate this festival, not with old yeast or the yeast of evil and wickedness, but with the bread made without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 In my previous letter I wrote that you should not associate with immoral people.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

10 I wasn't referring to the immoral people of this world, those who are greedy and cheat others, or those who worship idols, otherwise you'd have to leave this world!

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

11 What I meant when I wrote was that you shouldn't associate with anyone who is called a Christian who is immoral or greedy or worships idols; or who is abusive or a drunkard or who cheats others. Don't even share a meal with anyone like that!

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Do not even eat with such a person.

12 It's not my place to judge those outside the church. But shouldn't you judge those who are inside the church?

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are within?

13 God judges those that are outside the church. “Expel the wicked from among you.”

But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked person from among yourselves."