1 S omeone has told me about a sex sin among you. It is so bad that even the people who do not know God would not do it. I have been told that one of the men is living with his father’s wife as if she were his wife.

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

2 I nstead of being sorry, you are proud of yourselves. The man who is living like that should be sent away from you.

And 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.

3 I am far from you. Even if I am not there, my spirit is with you. I have already said that the man is guilty of this sin. I am saying this as if I were there with you.

For I, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

4 C all a meeting of the church. I will be with you in spirit. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by His power,

in 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:

5 h and this person over to the devil. His body is to be destroyed so his spirit may be saved on the day the Lord comes again.

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

6 I t is not good for you to be proud of the way things are going in your church. You know a little yeast makes the whole loaf of bread rise.

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

7 C lean out the old yeast. Then you will be new bread with none of the old yeast in you. The Jews killed lambs when they left Egypt. Christ is our lamb. He has already been killed as a gift on the altar to God for us.

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

8 B read with yeast in it is like being full of sin and hate. Let us eat this supper together with bread that has no yeast in it. This bread is pure and true.

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

9 I told you in my letter not to keep on being with people who do any kind of sex sins.

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

10 I was not talking about people doing sex sins who are bad people of this world. I was not talking about people of this world who always want to get more or those who get things in a wrong way or those who worship false gods. To get away from people like that you would have to leave this world!

not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since ye should go out of the world.

11 W hat I wrote was that you should not keep on being with a person who calls himself a Christian if he does any kind of sex sins. You should not even eat with a person who says he is a Christian but always wants to get more of everything or uses bad language or who gets drunk or gets things in a wrong way.

But 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.

12 I t is not for me to judge those outside the church. You are to judge those who belong to the church.

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

13 G od will judge those outside the church. So you must put that sinful person out of your church.

But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.