5:1 It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!
5:2 And you are being arrogant instead of being filled with grief and seeing to it that the man who did this is removed from among you.
5:3 Even though I am away from you physically, I am with you in spirit. I have already passed judgment on the man who did this, as though I were present with you.
5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are gathered together (and I am there in spirit), and the power of our Lord Jesus is there, too,
5:5 turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
5:6 Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you?
5:7 Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed.
5:8 So let's keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.
5:9 I wrote to you in my letter to stop associating with people who are sexually immoral—
5:10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, greedy, robbers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
5:11 But now I am writing to you to stop associating with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunk, or a robber. You must even stop eating with someone like that.
5:12 After all, is it my business to judge outsiders? You are to judge those who are in the community, aren't you?
5:13 God will judge outsiders. "Expel that wicked man."
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