1 Corinthiens 5

1 On entend dire généralement qu’il y a parmi vous de l’impudicité, et une impudicité telle qu’elle ne se rencontre pas même chez les païens; c’est au point que l’un de vous a la femme de son père.

[Now I want to discuss another matter]. It has been {People have} reported to me, and I believe that it is true, that some people among you have been acting in a sexually immoral way, in a way that is so bad that not even (pagans/people who do not know about God) act that way. People tell me that a man is living with his stepmother (OR, his father’s other wife).

2 Et vous êtes enflés d’orgueil! Et vous n’avez pas été plutôt dans l’affliction, afin que celui qui a commis cet acte fût ôté du milieu de vous!

You should be sad about what that man is doing! He should have been expelled {[You] should have expelled him} from your congregation! [But you] have not [done that], so (how can you be proud, [thinking that you are spiritually mature?]/it is disgusting that you are proud, [thinking that you are spiritually mature]!) [RHQ]

3 Pour moi, absent de corps, mais présent d’esprit, j’ai déjà jugé, comme si j’étais présent, celui qui a commis un tel acte.

As for me, I have already decided [how you should] punish that man. And even though I am away from you, my spirit is with you, and you should do as I would do if I were there with you.

4 Au nom du Seigneur Jésus, vous et mon esprit étant assemblés avec la puissance de notre Seigneur Jésus,

[What I have decided is that] when you have gathered together with the authority [MTY] of our Lord Jesus, and my spirit is with you, and the power of our Lord Jesus [is with you],

5 qu’un tel homme soit livré à Satan pour la destruction de la chair, afin que l’esprit soit sauvé au jour du Seigneur Jésus.

you should hand that man over to Satan. Then Satan can injure/punish his body, in order that [he will turn away from his sinful behavior] and his spirit will be saved on the day when the Lord [returns] [MTY].

6 C’est bien à tort que vous vous glorifiez. Ne savez-vous pas qu’un peu de levain fait lever toute la pâte?

It is not good that, [while you are letting that immoral man continue to be in your congregation], you are boasting [about being spiritually mature]. (You know that a small amount of yeast affects all the bread dough [MET] [into which it is put] {[a woman puts it]}./Do you not know that a small amount of yeast affects all the bread dough [MET] [into which it is put]?) [RHQ] [Similarly, one person who continues to sin will have a bad effect on all the congregation].

7 Faites disparaître le vieux levain, afin que vous soyez une pâte nouvelle, puisque vous êtes sans levain, car Christ, notre Pâque, a été immolé.

So, [just like we Jews] expel the old yeast [from our houses during the Passover celebration] in order that we may have a fresh batch of dough without yeast in it [MET], [you must expel such evil people from your congregation]. Do [that so that you can truly be holy people], as [I know that] you really are. Remember that Christ was sacrificed {sacrificed himself} [so that God could spare us from being punished for our sins, just like the Jews sacrificed lambs during] the [first] Passover celebration [so that God would spare their firstborn sons from being killed].

8 Célébrons donc la fête, non avec du vieux levain, non avec un levain de malice et de méchanceté, mais avec les pains sans levain de la pureté et de la vérité.

So let us celebrate [the fact that God has freed us from being punished us for our sins] [MET], [just like the Jews] in [later years] celebrated Passover [to celebrate God freeing them from being slaves in Egypt. They made sure that there was] no old yeast in the dough. [They ate bread that] had no yeast in it. [Similarly], [we should make sure that there are no people in our congregations] [MET] [who act] maliciously [toward others] or [act] wickedly. Instead, [make sure] [MET] [that all those in our congregations are ones who act] sincerely and [speak] truthfully.

9 Je vous ai écrit dans ma lettre de ne pas avoir des relations avec les impudiques,

In the previous letter that I wrote to you, I said that you should not associate with sexually immoral people.

10 non pas d’une manière absolue avec les impudiques de ce monde, ou avec les cupides et les ravisseurs, ou avec les idolâtres; autrement, il vous faudrait sortir du monde.

I did not mean that you should not associate with unbelievers who are immoral, or who desire things that belong to others, or who (forcefully seize things that belong to others/are swindlers), or who worship idols. You would have to leave this world [to avoid all people] like that.

11 Maintenant, ce que je vous ai écrit, c’est de ne pas avoir des relations avec quelqu’un qui, se nommant frère, est impudique, ou cupide, ou idolâtre, ou outrageux, ou ivrogne, ou ravisseur, de ne pas même manger avec un tel homme.

But now [I am stating clearly that] when I wrote, I [meant that] you should not associate with those who say that they are fellow believers, if they are sexually immoral or if they desire and forcefully seize things that belong to others, or worship idols, or slander others, or become drunk. You should not associate with people like that, and you should not even eat with them!

12 Qu’ai-je, en effet, à juger ceux du dehors? N’est-ce pas ceux du dedans que vous avez à juger?

It is certainly not [RHQ] my business to judge people who are not believers and who do not belong to [Christian congregations]. But it certainly is [RHQ] your business to judge those who are in [your congregation]!

13 Pour ceux du dehors, Dieu les juge. Otez le méchant du milieu de vous.

God is the one who will judge those who are not believers. [Do as the Scriptures command]: “Expel the wicked person from your midst!”