1 Corinthians 5

¹It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the Gentiles—that one of you has his father’s wife.

²And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned? Let him who has done this deed be removed from among you.

³For I truly, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, just as if I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

⁴When you, and my spirit, are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

⁵you are to hand over such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

⁷Clean out the old leaven, so that you can be a new lump of dough, just as you really are unleavened. For indeed, Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

⁸So then, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither 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,

¹⁰not at all meaning with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, since then you would have an obligation to go out of the world.

¹¹But as it is, I am writing to you not to associate with anyone named as a brother or sister who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler; with such you are not to eat.

¹²For what have I to do with judging those who are outside the church? Aren’t you supposed to judge those who are inside the Church?

¹³But those who are outside God judges. Remove the wicked person from among yourselves!