Immorality Defiles the Church
1 It is actually reportedthatthereissexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’swife!
2 And you are puffed up, and have not rathermourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.
4 In thename of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit,with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 deliver such a one toSatan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your gloryingisnot good. Do you not know thata little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeedChrist, ourPassover, was sacrificed for us.
8 Thereforelet us keep the feast,not with old leaven, norwith the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavenedbreadof sincerity and truth.
Immorality Must Be Judged
9 I wrote to you in my epistlenot to keep company with sexually immoral people.
10 YetIcertainlydidnotmeanwith the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to goout of the world.
11 But now I have written to you not to keep companywith anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
12 For whathaveItodowith judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore“put away from yourselves the evil person.”