1 Corinthians 5–6

Chapter 5

Immorality Rebuked

¹It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has ^ahis father’s wife.

²¹You ^ahave become ²arrogant and have not ^bmourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be ^cremoved from your midst.

³For I, on my part, though ^aabsent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

^4aIn the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and ¹I with you in spirit, ^bwith the power of our Lord Jesus,

⁵I have decided to ^adeliver such a one to ^bSatan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in ^cthe day of the Lord ¹Jesus.

^6aYour boasting is not good. ^bDo you not know that ^ca little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

⁷Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our ^aPassover also has been sacrificed.

⁸Therefore let us celebrate the feast, ^anot with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote you in my letter ^anot to associate with immoral people;

¹⁰I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with ^aidolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

¹¹But ¹actually, I wrote to you not to associate ²with any so-called ^abrother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or ^ban idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

¹²For what have I to do with judging ^aoutsiders? ^bDo you not judge those who are within the church?

¹³But those who are outside, God ¹judges. ^aRemove the wicked man from among yourselves.

Chapter 6

Lawsuits Discouraged

¹Does any one of you, when he has a ¹case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and ^anot before the ²saints?

²Or ^ado you not know that ^bthe ¹saints will judge ^cthe world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to ²constitute the smallest law courts?

^3aDo you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

⁴So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, ¹do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

^5aI say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his ^bbrethren,

⁶but brother goes to law with brother, and that before ^aunbelievers?

⁷Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. ^aWhy not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

⁸On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your ^abrethren.

⁹Or ^ado you not know that the unrighteous will not ^binherit the kingdom of God? ^cDo not be deceived; ^dneither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor ¹effeminate, nor homosexuals,

¹⁰nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will ^ainherit the kingdom of God.

^11aSuch were some of you; but you were ^bwashed, but you were ^csanctified, but you were ^djustified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

The Body Is the Lord’s

^12aAll things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

^13aFood is for the ¹stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will ^bdo away with both ²of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but ^cfor the Lord, and ^dthe Lord is for the body.

¹⁴Now God has not only ^araised the Lord, but ^bwill also raise us up through His power.

^15aDo you not know that ^byour bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? ^cMay it never be!

¹⁶Or ^ado you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “^bThe two shall become one flesh.”

¹⁷But the one who joins himself to the Lord is ^aone spirit with Him.

^18aFlee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the ¹immoral man sins against his own body.

¹⁹Or ^ado you not know that ^byour body is a ¹temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from ²God, and that ^cyou are not your own?

²⁰For ^ayou have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in ^byour body.