AIT Bible

1 Corinthians 5

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not even exist among the Gentiles: that a man is living with his father’s wife. 2And you are puffed up with pride! Shouldn’t you instead have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?

3For my part, though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit; and I have already passed judgment on the man who has done this, just as if I were present. 4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and my spirit is with you along with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5you are to 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.

6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough? 7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a fresh batch of dough, just as you already are "unleavened." For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Therefore, let us keep the festival—not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with people who are sexually immoral— 10not at all meaning the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since you would then have to leave the world entirely. 11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls themselves a brother or sister if they are sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. 12For what business is it of mine to judge those outside the community? Is it not those inside whom you are to judge? 13God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among yourselves.”