1 Corinthians 5

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as is not even found among the Gentiles: a man has his father’s wife.

2And you are puffed up, and 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 judged, as though present, the one who has done this thing.

4In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and my spirit is with you, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5to hand such a man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the 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, just as you are unleavened. For Messiah, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

8Therefore let us keep 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 the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people,

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

11But now I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral or greedy or an idolater or abusive or a drunkard or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person.

12For what is it to me to judge outsiders? Is it not those inside that you are to judge?

13But God judges those outside. Remove the evil person from among yourselves.