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1 Corinthians 5

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Immorality Rebuked

(Leviticus 20:10-21; Proverbs 5:1-23)

1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and removed from your fellowship the man who did this?3 Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.4 When you are gathered in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord(a).6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

7 Get rid of the old yeast, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Expel the Immoral Brother

9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.10 I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.11 But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.12 What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.&rdquo(a);

 
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