1 Corinthians 5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Immoral Church Members

¹ It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality  among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated  among the Gentiles   #– #a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.

² And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief  and remove from your congregation the one who did this?

³ Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit.  As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgement 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,  so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven  , leavens the whole batch of dough?

⁷ Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb  has been sacrificed.

⁸ Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil,  but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Church Discipline

⁹ I wrote to you in a letter not to associate  with sexually immoral people.

¹⁰ I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy  and swindlers  or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

¹¹ But actually, I wrote  you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister  and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard  or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

¹² For what business is it of mine to judge  outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside?

¹³ God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you.   ,