1 Corinthians 5:1–9

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.

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

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

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

5 To 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.

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

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

8 Therefore, 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.

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