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¹ IT is reported that immorality is com mon among you, and such immorality as is not known among pagans, that even a son should marry his father''s wife. *² But instead of boasting as you have, rather had you sat down mourning that he who has done this deed has not been removed from among you.³ For while I am far away from you in body, yet I am near you in spirit, and I have already judged, as though I were present, him who has done this deed.⁴ In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, gather together, and I will be with you in spirit and with the power of our LORD Jesus Christ;⁵ So that you shall deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his body, in order that the spirit may be saved in the day of our LORD Jesus Christ.⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven will leaven the whole lump?

⁷ Clean out therefore the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened. For our passover is Christ who was sacrificed for our sake.⁸ Therefore let us celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of evil and bitterness, but with the leaven of purity and sanctity.

⁹ I wrote to you in an epistle not to associate with immoral persons.¹⁰ I do not mean that you should separate completely from all the immoral people of this world, or from the fraudulent and extortioners, or from idolaters; otherwise you would be obliged to leave this world.¹¹ Now what I have written to you is this: you are not to associate with any person who is known as a brother and yet is immoral or fraudulent or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with such a person you must not break bread.¹² For what business have I to judge those who are outside the church? But you may judge those who are within the church.¹³ God will judge the outsiders. Therefore, put away from among yourselves those wicked persons.