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.

Se ha sabido de un caso de inmoralidad sexual entre ustedes, que ni siquiera los paganos tolerarían, y es que uno de ustedes tiene como mujer a la esposa de su padre.

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

Ustedes están engreídos. ¿No deberían, más bien, lamentar lo sucedido y expulsar de entre ustedes al que cometió tal acción?

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.

Yo, por mi parte, aunque físicamente no estoy entre ustedes, sí lo estoy en espíritu y, como si hubiera estado presente, he juzgado al que hizo tal cosa.

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,

Cuando ustedes se reúnan, y en espíritu yo esté con ustedes, en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, y con su poder,

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.

entreguen a ese hombre a Satanás para que lo destruya, a fin de que su espíritu sea salvado en el día del Señor Jesús.

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.

No está bien que ustedes se jacten. ¿No saben que un poco de levadura hace fermentar toda la masa?

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.

Límpiense de la vieja levadura, para que sean una nueva masa, sin levadura, como en realidad lo son. Nuestra pascua, que es Cristo, ya ha sido sacrificada por nosotros.

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.

Así que celebremos la fiesta, pero no con la vieja levadura, ni con la levadura de malicia y de maldad, sino con panes sin levadura, de sinceridad y de verdad.

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

Por carta ya les he dicho que no se junten con esos libertinos.

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!

Y no me refiero a que se aparten del todo de los libertinos mundanos, o de los avaros, o de los ladrones, o de los idólatras, pues en ese caso tendrían que salirse de este mundo.

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.

Más bien les escribí que no se junten con los que se dicen hermanos pero son libertinos, avaros, idólatras, insolentes, borrachos y ladrones. Con esa gente, ni siquiera coman juntos.

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

¿Con qué derecho podría yo juzgar a los de afuera, si ustedes no juzgan a los de adentro?

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

A los de afuera, ya Dios los juzgará. Así que, ¡saquen de entre ustedes a ese perverso!