The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

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- Chapter 5 -

(Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)

Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father.(a)

And yet you are inflated, and you have not instead been grieved, so that he who has done this thing would be taken away from your midst.

Certainly, though absent in body, I am present in spirit. Thus, I have already judged, as if I were present, him who has done this.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you have been gathered together with my spirit, in the power of our Lord Jesus,

to hand over such a one as this to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?

Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated.

And so, let us feast, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Expel the Immoral Brother

As I have written to you in an epistle: “Do not associate with fornicators,”

certainly not with the fornicators of this world, nor with the greedy, nor with robbers, nor with the servants of idolatry. Otherwise, you ought to depart from this world.

But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food.

For what have I to do with judging those who are outside? But do not even you yourselves judge those who are inside?

For those who are outside, God will judge. But send this evil person away from yourselves.

Footnotes

(a)5:1 The expression ‘wife of his father’ refers to his stepmother, not his natural mother.(Conte)

(Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

you are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Expel the Immoral Brother

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”(a)

Footnotes

(a)5:13 ℘ Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7