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Sexual Immorality in the Church

¹ It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has ^(C1)his father's wife.² And ^(F1)you ^(C1)have become puffed up and ^(F2)have not ^(C2)mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be ^(C3)removed from your midst.

³ For I, on my part, though ^(C1)absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present:^4 (C1)in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and ^(F1)I with you in spirit, ^(C2)with the power of our Lord Jesus,^5 (C1)deliver such a one to ^(C2)Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in ^(C3)the day of ^(F1)the Lord.

^6 (C1)Your boasting is not good. ^(C2)Do you not know that ^(C3)a little leaven leavens the whole lump?⁷ Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ, our ^(C1)Passover lamb, also was sacrificed.⁸ Therefore let us celebrate the feast, ^(C1)not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ I wrote you in my letter ^(C1)not to associate with sexually immoral people;¹⁰ I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with ^(C1)idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.¹¹ But now I am writing to you not to associate ^(F1)with any so-called ^(C1)brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or greedy, or ^(C2)an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.¹² For what have I to do with judging ^(C1)outsiders? ^(C2)Are you not to judge those who are within the church?¹³ But those who are outside, God will judge. ^(C1)REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES.