1 Corinthians 5

Immorality Rebuked

1 Corinthians 5:1–8

1 It is reported commonly that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

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

5 To deliver such a person unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new batch of dough, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Expel the Immoral Brother

1 Corinthians 5:9–13

9 I wrote unto you in a letter not to associate with those who practice sexual immorality:

10 Yet not altogether with those who practice sexual immorality in this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then would ye have to go out of the world.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a verbally abusive person, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; not even to eat with such a person.

12 For what have I to do to judge those also who are outside? do not ye judge them that are within?

13 But those who are outside, God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.