1CORINTHIANS 5 (NIV)
- It is actually reported that there is seual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.
- And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?
- Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
- When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit,
- hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.
- Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?
- Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast - as you really are. For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
- I have written you in my letter not to associate with seual immoral people -
- not at all meaning the people of this world 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 you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is seually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
- What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
- God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."
