1 Corinthians 5:1–13

Dealing With a Case of Incest

5It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.^{l 2}And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning^m and have put out of your fellowshipⁿ the man who has been doing this? ³For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit.^o As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus^p on the one who has been doing this. ⁴So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, ⁵hand this man over^q to Satan^r for the destruction of the flesh,^ab so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.^s

⁶Your boasting is not good.^t Don’t you know that a little yeast^u leavens the whole batch of dough?^{v 7}Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.^{w 8}Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread^x of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote to you in my letter not to associate^y with sexually immoral people—¹⁰not at all meaning the people of this world^z who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. ¹¹But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister^ca but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater^b or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.^c

¹²What business is it of mine to judge those outside^d the church? Are you not to judge those inside?^{e 13}God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”^df