The First to the Corinthians, 5

¹ Actually sexual immorality^*1 is reported among you, and such immorality^*2 as is not even found among the nations—of a man living with^*3 his father’s wife.

² And are you proud of it? Should you not rather mourn, so that the man who committed this deed should be taken away from your midst?

³ Although absent in body, I am present in spirit, and I have already judged the man who has done this, as if I were actually with you.

⁴ When you are gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus, and knowing that I am with you in spirit along with the power of our Lord Jesus,

⁵ you must hand such a man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven ferments^*1 the whole batch of dough?

⁷ Clear away the old leaven so that you may be a new batch, inasmuch as you are free from ferment.^*1 For, indeed, Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.

⁸ So, then, let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of badness and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ In my letter I wrote you to stop keeping company^*1 with sexually immoral people,^*2

¹⁰ not meaning entirely with the sexually immoral people^*1 of this world or the greedy people or extortioners or idolaters. Otherwise, you would actually have to get out of the world.

¹¹ But now I am writing you to stop keeping company^*1 with anyone called a brother who is sexually immoral^*2 or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler^*3 or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man.

¹² For what do I have to do with judging those outside? Do you not judge those inside,

¹³ while God judges those outside? “Remove the wicked person from among yourselves.”