1 Corinthians Chapter 5

Immorality in Corinth

            ¹ Immorality is reported among you that doesn’t exist even among Gentiles—someone living with his father’s wife. ² Are you proud of this instead of mourning over it—a mourning that should lead to removing him from you? ³ I’m absent in body but present in spirit, and already—as if present—I’ve judged him. ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus, assemble with my spirit and the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ and deliver him to Satan to destroy the flesh but save his spirit when the Lord comes. ⁶ Your pride is not good. Don’t you understand that a little yeast spreads through the whole batch? ⁷ Get rid of the old yeast so you’re a fresh batch. You’re a fresh batch because Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. ⁸ So let’s celebrate the feast, not with old, evil yeast, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.                            

⁹ I’ve written to you not to associate with immoral people. ¹⁰ I don’t mean immoral people in the world—covetous people, swindlers, idolaters. You’d have to get out of the world to do that! ¹¹ Now I’m writing to you not to associate with anyone called a Christian that’s immoral or covetous, an idolater, slanderer, or drunk—not to eat with someone like that. ¹² What business is it of mine to judge people outside the church? Isn’t it your responsibility to judge the ones in the church? ¹³ God will judge the rest. “Remove the sinful person from you” [Deut 17:7; 19:19; 22:21, 24; 24:7].                                                                                                                                                    

1 Cor 5:1-13