1 Corinthians 5:1–8

Paul Condemns Spiritual Pride

I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.* 2 You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship.

3 Even though I am not with you in person, I am with you in the Spirit.* And as though I were there, I have already passed judgment on this man 4 in the name of the Lord Jesus. You must call a meeting of the church.* I will be present with you in spirit, and so will the power of our Lord Jesus. 5 Then you must throw this man out and hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed* and he himself* will be saved on the day the Lord* returns.

6 Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.* 8 So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread* of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread* of sincerity and truth.

*	5:1 Greek his father’s wife.
*	5:3 Or in spirit.
*	5:4 Or In the name of the Lord Jesus, you must call a meeting of the church.
*	5:5a Or so that his body will be destroyed; Greek reads for the destruction of the flesh.
*	5:5b Greek and the spirit.
*	5:5c Other manuscripts read the Lord Jesus; still others read our Lord Jesus Christ.
*	5:7 Greek has been sacrificed.
*	5:8a Greek not with old leaven.
*	5:8b Greek but with unleavened [bread].