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Immorality Rebuked

¹ It is actually reported everywhere that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is condemned even among the unbelieving Gentiles: that someone ^(F1)has an intimate relationship with ^(C1)his father's wife. ^(VR1)2 And you ^(C1)are proud and arrogant! You should have ^(C2)mourned in shame so that the man who has done this disgraceful thing would be ^(C3)removed from your fellowship!

³ For I, though ^(C1)absent from you in body but present in spirit, have already passed judgment on him who has committed this act, as if I were present.^4 (C1)In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I am with you in spirit, ^(C2)with the power of our Lord Jesus,⁵ you are to ^(F1)(C1)hand over this man to ^(C2)Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved in ^(C3)the day of the Lord Jesus.

^6 (C1)Your boasting over the supposed spirituality of your church is not good indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate. ^(F1)(C2)Do you not know that just ^(C3)a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church?^7 (F1)Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new batch, just as you are, still unleavened. For Christ our ^(C1)Passover Lamb has been sacrificed.⁸ Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, ^(C1)not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and untainted truth. ^(VR1)

⁹ I wrote you in my previous letter ^(C1)not to associate with sexually immoral people—¹⁰ not meaning the immoral people of this world, or the greedy ones and swindlers, or ^(C1)idolaters, for then you would have to get out of the world and human society altogether!¹¹ But actually, I have written to you not to associate with any so-called Christian ^(C1)brother if he is sexually immoral or greedy, or is ^(C2)an idolater devoted to anything that takes the place of God, or is a reviler who insults or slanders or otherwise verbally abuses others, or is a drunkard or a swindler—you must not so much as ^(F1)eat with such a person. ^(VR1)12 For what business is it of mine to judge ^(C1)outsiders (non-believers)? ^(C2)Do you not judge those who are within the church to protect the church as the situation requires?¹³ God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside the faith. ^(C1)REMOVE THE WICKED ONE FROM AMONG YOU expel him from your church. ^(VR1)