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It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has ^(a)his father's wife.

^[a]You ^(b)have become ^[b]arrogant and ^[c]have not ^(c)mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be ^(d)removed from your midst.

For I, on my part, though ^(e)absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

^(f)In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and ^[d]I with you in spirit, ^(g)with the power of our Lord Jesus,

I have decided to ^(h)deliver such a one to ⁽ⁱ⁾Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in ^(j)the day of the Lord ^[e]Jesus.

^(k)Your boasting is not good. ^(l)Do you not know that ^(m)a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our ⁽ⁿ⁾Passover also has been sacrificed.

Therefore let us celebrate the feast, ^(o)not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote you in my letter ^(p)not to associate with immoral people;

I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with ^(q)idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

But ^[f]actually, I wrote to you not to associate ^[g]with any so-called ^(r)brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or ^(s)an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

For what have I to do with judging ^(t)outsiders? ^(u)Do you not judge those who are within the church?

But those who are outside, God ^[h]judges. ^(v) Remove the wicked man from among yourselves .