B. Moral Disorders
Chapter 5
A Case of Incest. 1 It is widely reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans—a man living with his father’s wife.(A) 2 And you are inflated with pride. Should you not rather have been sorrowful? The one who did this deed should be expelled from your midst. 3 I, for my part, although absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as if present, pronounced judgment on the one who has committed this deed,(B) 4 in the name of [our] Lord Jesus: when you have gathered together and I am with you in spirit with the power of the Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.(C)
6 (D)Your boasting is not appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough? 7 Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.(E) 8 Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.(F)
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people, 10 not at all referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world.(G) 11 But I now write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, if he is immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a robber, not even to eat with such a person.(H) 12 For why should I be judging outsiders? Is it not your business to judge those within? 13 God will judge those outside. “Purge the evil person from your midst.”(I)
Footnotes
- 5:1–6:20
- 5:1–13
- 5:2
- 5:5
- 5:6
- 5:7–8
- 5:9–13
Cross references
- 5:1 : Lv 18:7–8; 20:11; Dt 27:20.
- 5:3 : Col 2:5.
- 5:5 : 1 Tm 1:20.
- 5:6 : Gal 5:9.
- 5:7 : Ex 12:1–13; Dt 16:1–2; 1 Pt 1:19.
- 5:8 : Ex 12:15–20; 13:7; Dt 16:3.
- 5:10 : 10:27; Jn 17:15.
- 5:11 : Mt 18:17; 2 Thes 3:6, 14; 2 Jn 10.
- 5:13 : Dt 13:6; 17:7; 22:24.
