(A)In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and [a]I with you in spirit, (B)with the power of our Lord Jesus, I have decided to (C)deliver such a one to (D)Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in (E)the day of the Lord [b]Jesus.

(F)Your boasting is not good. (G)Do you not know that (H)a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our (I)Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, (J)not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote you in my letter (K)not to associate with immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with (L)idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. 11 But [c]actually, I wrote to you not to associate [d]with any so-called (M)brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or (N)an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging (O)outsiders? (P)Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God [e]judges. (Q)Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 5:4 Lit my spirit, with the power
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Two early mss do not contain Jesus
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit now
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit together if any man called a brother is
  5. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Or will judge

11 For behold what earnestness this very thing, this [a]godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what (A)longing, what zeal, what (B)avenging of wrong! In everything you (C)demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 7:11 Lit sorrow according to God