1 Corinthians 5:1–13

Immorality Defiles the Church

5It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even ¹named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s ^awife! ^2bAnd you are ²puffed up, and have not rather ^cmourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. ^3dFor I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. ⁴In the ^ename of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, ^fwith the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^5gdeliver such a one to ^hSatan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord ³Jesus.

⁶ⁱYour glorying is not good. Do you not know that ^ja little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷Therefore ⁴purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed ^kChrist, our ^lPassover, was sacrificed ⁵for us. ⁸Therefore ^mlet us keep the feast, ⁿnot with old leaven, nor ^owith the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Immorality Must Be Judged

⁹I wrote to you in my epistle ^pnot to ⁶keep company with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go ^qout of the world. ¹¹But now I have written to you not to keep company ^rwith anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—^snot even to eat with such a person.

¹²For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? ¹³But those who are outside God judges. Therefore ^t“put away from yourselves the evil person.”