1 Corinthians 5

IMMORAL CHURCH MEMBERS

5It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality^am among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated^A among the Gentiles^an—a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.^{ao 2}And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief^ap and remove from your congregation the one who did this? ³Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit.^aq As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing. ⁴When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,^ar so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.^as

⁶Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven^at leavens the whole batch of dough?^{au 7}Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb^av has been sacrificed.^{C 8}Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil,^a but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

CHURCH DISCIPLINE

⁹I wrote to you in a letter not to associate^b with sexually immoral people.^{c 10}I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy^d and swindlers^e or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.^{f 11}But actually, I wrote^D you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister^g and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard^h or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. ¹²For what business is it of mine to judgeⁱ outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside? ¹³God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you.^Ej