Immorality Rebuked

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 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.

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.”