It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father’s wife.

²And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this thing.

³I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,

⁴In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus:

⁵To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

⁷Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

⁸Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators.

¹⁰I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

¹¹But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

¹²For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within?

¹³For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

Chapter 6

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints?

²Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

³Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more things of this world?

⁴If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge who are the most despised in the church.

⁵I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man that is able to judge between his brethren?

⁶But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers.

⁷Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

⁸But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren.

⁹Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

¹⁰Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.

¹¹And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God.

¹²All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of any.

¹³Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴Now God hath raised up the Lord and will raise us up also by his power.

¹⁵Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid!

¹⁶Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

¹⁷But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁸Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

¹⁹Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own?

²⁰For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

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