1 | It is reported commonly that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. |
2 | And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. |
3 | For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, |
4 | In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are assembled, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, |
5 | To deliver such one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. |
6 | Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? |
7 | Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: |
8 | Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. |
9 | I have written to you in this epistle, not to associate with persons guilty of lewdness: |
10 | Yet not altogether with lewd persons of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must needs go out of the world. |
11 | But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother is a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such person no not to eat. |
12 | For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do ye not judge them that are within? |
13 | But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. |