1 Corinthians 5

Immoral Church Members

5It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality ^xamong you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated ^yamong the Gentiles ^z—a man is living with his father’s wife. ^a2And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief ^bso that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation. ³For though I am absent in body but present in spirit, ^cI have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present. ⁴When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, ^dso that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord. ^e

⁶Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast ^fpermeates the whole batch of dough? ^g7Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passover ^hhas been sacrificed. ⁱ⁸Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil ^jbut with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Church Discipline

⁹I wrote to you in a letter not to associate ^kwith sexually immoral people. ^l10I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy ^mand swindlers ⁿor idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world. ^o11But now I am writing ^pyou not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer ^qrwho is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard ^sor a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. ¹²For what business is it of mine to judge ^toutsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside? ¹³But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves. ^uv