1 I t is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.

وَأنا أسمَعُ أنَّ بَينَكُمْ زِنَىً يَفُوقُ ما هُوَ مَعرُوفٌ حَتَّى بَينَ غَيرِ المُؤمِنِينَ! أقْصِدُ بِهَذا ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلَ الَّذِي يُعاشِرُ زَوجَةَ أبِيهِ!

2 Y ou have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

وَمَعَ هَذا فَأنتُمْ مُنتَفِخُونَ بِالكِبرِياءِ! أما كانَ يَجدُرُ بِكُمْ أنْ تَحزَنُوا بِسَبَبِ ذَلِكَ؟ كانَ عَلَيكُمْ أنْ تَطرُدُوا مَنْ يُقُومُ بِذَلِكَ مِنْ بَينِكُمْ.

3 F or I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

صَحِيحٌ أنِّي غائِبٌ عَنكُمْ فِي الجَسَدِ، لَكِنِّي حاضِرٌ بِالرُّوحِ. وَقَدْ أصدَرتُ بِالفِعلِ حُكماً عَلَى مَنْ قامَ بِهَذِهِ الفِعلَةِ، كَما لَوْ كُنتُ حاضِراً بَينَكُمْ.

4 I n the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

فَحِينَ تَجتَمِعُونَ بِاسْمِ رَبِّنا يَسُوعَ المَسِيحِ، سَأكُونُ مَعَكُمْ بِرُوحِي، وَسَتَكُونُ قُوَّةُ رَبِّنا بَينَكُمْ أيضاً.

5 I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

عِندَئِذٍ سَلِّمُوا مِثلَ هَذا الرَّجُلِ للشَّيطانِ لِهَلاكِ طَبِيعَتِهِ الجَسَدِيَّةِ، لِكَي تَخلُصَ رُوحُهُ فِي يَومِ الرَّبِّ.

6 Y our boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough ?

لا يَجُوزُ لَكُمْ أنْ تَتَباهُوا. ألا تَعلَمُونَ أنَّ مِقداراً قَلِيلاً مِنَ الخَمِيرَةِ يَجعَلُ العَجِينَ كُلَّهُ يَخْتَمِرُ؟

7 C lean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

فَتَخَلَّصُوا مِنَ الخَمِيرَةِ القَدِيمَةِ لِكَي تَكُونُوا عَجِيناً جَدِيداً. فَأنتُمْ كَمُؤمِنِينَ بِالمَسِيحِ أرغِفَةَ خُبزٍ بِلا خَمِيرَةٍ، لِأنَّ المَسِيحَ هُوَ خَرُوفُ فِصحِنا الَّذِي ذُبِحَ مِنْ أجلِنا.

8 T herefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

فَلْنُواصِلِ احْتِفالَنا، لَكِنْ لَيسَ بِالخَمِيرَةِ العَتِيقَةِ، خَمِيرَةِ الخَطِيَّةِ وَالشَّرِّ، بَلْ بِأرغِفَةٍ بِلا خَمِيرَةٍ، أرغِفَةِ الإخلاصِ وَالحَقِّ.

9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;

كَتَبتُ إلَيكُمْ فِي رِسالَتِي السّابِقَةِ ألّا تُخالِطُوا الزُّناةَ.

10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

لَمْ أكُنْ أقصِدُ بِذَلِكَ أنْ لا تُخالِطُوا أهلَ هَذا العالَمِ الزُّناةَ أوِ الفاسِقِينَ أوِ المُحتالِينَ أوْ عَبَدَةَ الأوثانِ، وَإلّا فَإنَّكُمْ سَتَضطَرُّونَ إلَى الخُرُوجِ مِنْ هَذا العالَمِ.

11 B ut actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

لَكِنِّي الآنَ أكتُبُ إلَيكُمْ أنْ لا تُخالِطُوا مَنْ يَزعُمُ أنَّهُ مُؤمِنٌ وَهُوَ زانٍ أوْ فاسِقٌ أوْ عابِدُ أوثانٍ أوْ مُفتَرٍ أوْ سِكِّيْرٌ أوْ مُحتالٌ. فَلا يَنبَغِي حَتَّى أنْ تَأكُلُوا مَعَ مِثلِ هَذا الإنسانِ!

12 F or what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church ?

فَما شَأْنِي أنا لِأُطلِقُ حُكماً عَلَى الَّذِينَ لا يَنتَمُونَ إلَى الكَنِيسَةِ؟

13 B ut those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.

فَاللهُ هُوَ الَّذِي سَيَحكُمُ عَلَيهِمْ. أمّا الكِتابُ فَيَقُولُ: «أخرِجُوا الشِّرِّيرَ مِنْ بَينِكُمْ.»