1 I t is universally reported fornication among you, and such fornication as not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

It 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 father’s wife.

2 A nd ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

And you are proud and arrogant! And you ought rather to mourn (bow in sorrow and in shame) until the person who has done this thing is removed from your fellowship and your midst!

3 F or I, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

As for my attitude, though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and I have already decided and passed judgment, as if actually present,

4 i n the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:

In 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,

5 t o deliver him, such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

You are to deliver this man over to Satan for physical discipline, that spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Y our boasting not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven will ferment the whole lump ?

7 P urge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated, for Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

8 s o that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened of sincerity and truth.

Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity and truth.

9 I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with unchaste (impure) people—

10 n ot altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since ye should go out of the world.

Not 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!

11 B ut now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with; with such a one not even to eat.

But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater, or is a person with a foul tongue, or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. you must not so much as eat with such a person.

12 F or what have I with judging those outside also? ye, do not ye judge them that are within?

What of mine is it and what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not those inside upon whom you are to pass disciplinary judgment ?

13 B ut those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.

God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside. Drive out that wicked one from among you.