1 Corinthians 5

Immoral Behavior and Church Discipline

5It is reported everywhere that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which does not even exist among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of his father. ²And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst? ³For although I^* am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already passed judgment on the one who has done this in this way, as if I^* were present. ⁴In the name of our Lord Jesus, when^* you are assembled, and my spirit, together with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵I have decided^* to hand over such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

⁶Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough? ⁷Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. ⁸So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰By no means did I mean the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world. ¹¹But now I have written to you not to associate with any so-called brother, if he is a sexually immoral person or a greedy person or an idolater or an abusive person or a drunkard or a swindler—with such a person not even to eat. ¹²For what is it to me to judge those outside? Should you not judge those inside? ¹³But those outside God will judge. Remove the evil person from among yourselves^a.