1 Corinthians 5

Immorality Rebuked

(Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)

¹ It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

² And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

³ Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

⁴ When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus ¹ and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

⁵ hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.²

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

⁷ Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Expel the Immoral Brother

⁹ I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

¹⁰ I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

¹¹ But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

¹² What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

¹³ God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”³