5IT IS actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, impurity of a sort that is condemned {and} does not occur even among the heathen; for a man has [his own] father's wife.G191G3654G4202G1722G5213G2532G5108G4202G3748G3687G3761G3687G1722G1484G5620G5100G2192G3962G11352And you are proud {and} arrogant! And you ought rather to mourn (bow in sorrow and in shame) until the person who has done this [shameful] thing is removed from your fellowship {and} your midst!G2532G5210G2075G5448G2532G3996G3780G3123G3996G2443G4160G5124G2041G1808G1537G3319G52163As for my attitude, though I am absent [from you] in body, I am present in spirit, and I have already decided {and} passed judgment, as if actually present,G1063G1473G3303G5613G548G4983G1161G3918G4151G2919G2235G5613G3918G2716G3779G2716G51244In the name of the Lord Jesus {Christ,} on the man who has committed such a deed. When you and my own spirit are met together with the power of our Lord Jesus,G1722G3686G2257G2962G2424G5547G5216G4863G2532G1699G4151G4862G1411G2257G2962G2424G55475You are to deliver this man over to Satan for physical discipline [to destroy carnal lusts which prompted him to incest], that [his] spirit may [yet] be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.G3860G5108G4567G1519G3639G4561G2443G4151G4982G1722G2250G2962G24246[About the condition of your church] your boasting is not good [indeed, it is most unseemly and entirely out of place]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven will ferment the whole lump [of dough]?G5216G2745G3756G2570G1492G3756G3754G3398G2219G2220G3650G54457Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed.G1571G3767G3820G2219G2443G5600G3501G5445G2531G2075G106G1063G2532G5547G2257G3957G2380G5228G22578Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice {and} malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of purity (nobility, honor) {and} sincerity and [unadulterated] truth.G5620G1858G3361G1722G3820G2219G3366G1722G2219G2549G2532G4189G235G1722G106G1505G2532G2259I wrote you in my [previous] letter not to associate [closely and habitually] with unchaste (impure) people--G1125G5213G1722G1992G3361G4874G420510Not [meaning of course that you must] altogether shun the immoral people of this world, or the greedy graspers and cheats {and} thieves or idolaters, since otherwise you would need to get out of the world {and} human society altogether!G2532G3756G3843G4205G5127G2889G2228G4123G2228G727G2228G1496G1893G686G3784G1831G1537G288911But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that usurps the place of God], or is a person with a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a swindler {or} a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person.G1161G3570G1125G5213G3361G4874G1437G5100G3687G80G2228G4205G2228G4123G2228G1496G2228G3060G2228G3183G2228G727G5108G3366G490612What [business] of mine is it {and} what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not those inside [the church] upon whom you are to pass disciplinary judgment [passing censuring sentence on them as the facts require]?G1063G5101G3427G2919G2532G1854G2919G3780G5210G2919G208013God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside. Drive out that wicked one from among you [expel him from your church].G1161G1854G2316G2919G2532G1808G1537G5216G846G4190
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