Chapter 5.
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such
fornication, as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed
might be taken away from among you.
For I verily as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged
already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this
deed.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together,
and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto
Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of
the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good.
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are
unleavened.
For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
Therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of
malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators, yet not
altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or
extortioners, or with idolaters.
For then must ye need to go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a
brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner.
With such am one known not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
Do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without God judgeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.