1 Corinthians 5

Dealing With a Case of Incest

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man has his father’s wife.^a And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning^b and have put out of your fellowship^c the man who has been doing this? For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit.^d As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus^e on the one who has been doing this. So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over^f to Satan^g for the destruction of the sinful nature so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.^h

Your boasting is not good.ⁱ Don’t you know that a little yeast^j leavens the whole batch of dough?^k 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.^l Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread^m of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in my letter not to associateⁿ with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the people of this world^o who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with any who claim to be fellow believers^p but are sexually immoral or greedy, idolaters^q or slanderers, drunkards or swindlers. With such persons do not even eat.^r

What business is it of mine to judge those outside^s the church? Are you not to judge those inside?^t God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”^u