Immoral Church Members
5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality(A) among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles(B)—a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.(C) 2 And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief(D) and remove from your congregation the one who did this? 3 Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit.(E) As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,(F) so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.(G)
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven(H) leavens the whole batch of dough?(I) 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb(J) has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil,(K) but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Church Discipline
9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate(L) with sexually immoral people.(M) 10 I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy(N) and swindlers(O) or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.(P) 11 But actually, I wrote you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister(Q) and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard(R) or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. 12 For what business is it of mine to judge(S) outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside? 13 God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you.(T)
Footnotes
- 5:1
- 5:6
- 5:7
- 5:11
- 5:13
Cross references
- 5:1 : 1Th 4:3
- 5:1 : Gl 1:16
- 5:1 : Lv 18:8; Dt 22:30; 27:20
- 5:2 : Lk 6:25
- 5:3 : Col 2:5; 1Th 2:17
- 5:5 : 1Jn 5:16
- 5:5 : Mt 25:13; Ac 2:20; Php 1:6
- 5:6 : Lk 13:21; Gl 5:9
- 5:6–8 : Lk 13:21
- 5:7 : Ex 12
- 5:8 : Mk 7:22; Rm 1:29
- 5:9 : 2Th 3:14
- 5:9 : 1Co 6:9; Eph 5:5; 1Tm 1:10; Heb 12:16; 13:4; Rv 21:8; 22:15
- 5:10 : Eph 5:5
- 5:10 : Lk 18:11
- 5:10 : Jn 17:6
- 5:11 : 2Th 3:6
- 5:11 : 1Co 6:10
- 5:12 : Lk 6:37
- 5:13 : Dt 17:7
