And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief(A) so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation. For though I am absent in body but present in spirit,(B) I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present. When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus,

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And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning(A) and have put out of your fellowship(B) the man who has been doing this? For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit.(C) As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus(D) on the one who has been doing this. So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,

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