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¹ we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife. ² this you have made a matter of levity, instead of being concern'd in discarding him that has done such an action. ³ as for me, though I am absent in person, yet being present by my authority, with regard to him that has committed this fact, I am come to the same resolution, as if I was present, ⁴ that is, when you are assembled, and I virtually there, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , ⁵ to deliver him up to satan, to suffer corporal punishment, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁶ Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?

⁷ purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, since you should be without leaven. for Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed for us. ⁸ therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with unaffected sincerity and truth.

⁹ When I formerly writ to you, not to keep company with the vicious: ¹⁰ I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world. ¹¹ but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one. ¹² for what have I to do to judge those who are without the church; but are not you to judge those that are within? ¹³ those that are without, God will judge. therefore expel the libertine from your community.