New Testament · 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 5

Immorality Rebuked

(Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as is not even named among the nations — that someone has his father's wife. 2And you have become arrogant, and have not mourned instead, so that the one who did this deed would be removed from your midst.

3For I, while absent in body but present in spirit^a, have already judged as though I were present the one who has done this thing — 4in the name of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, when you are assembled and my spirit is present, with the power^b of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, 5to deliver such a one to adversary^c for the destruction of the flesh^d, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Yeshua.

6Your boasting is not good; do you not know that a little leaven^e leavens the whole lump? 7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened; for Messiah our Passover has been sacrificed for us. 8Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth^f.

Expel the Immoral Brother

9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — 10not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is sexually immoral or greedy or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or a swindler — not even to eat with such a person.

12For what is it to me to judge^g those outside? Do you not judge those inside? 13But those outside God judges; and "Remove the wicked person from among yourselves."