1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even found among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife.
2And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?
3For I, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already passed judgment—as though present—on the one who has done this thing in this way,
4in the name of our Lord Jesus—when you are assembled together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus—
5to hand over such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough?
7Clean out the old leaven, so that you may be a new batch, since you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
8So then let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor 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 the sexually immoral—
10not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters—since then you would have to leave the world.
11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—with such a person not even to eat.
12For what business is it of mine to judge those outside? Is it not those inside whom you judge?
13But those outside God will judge. “Remove the evil person from among yourselves.”
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