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1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 5

Immoral Church Members

1 It is widely reported that there is sexual immoralityamong you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even toleratedamong the Gentiles— a man is living with his father’s wife.

2 And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with griefso that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation.

3 For though I am absent in body but present in spirit,I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present.

4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5 turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeastpermeates the whole batch of dough?

7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passoverhas been sacrificed.

8 Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evilbut with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Church Discipline

9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associatewith sexually immoral people.

10 I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedyand swindlersor idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

11 But now I am writingyou not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believerwho is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkardor a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

12 For what business is it of mine to judgeoutsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside?

13 But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves.

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