(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 [b]to (C)turn such a person over to (D)Satan for the destruction of his [c]body, so that his spirit may be saved on (E)the day of the [d]Lord.

(F)Your boasting is not good. (G)Do you not know that (H)a little [e]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’s 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 to you in my letter (K)not to associate with sexually immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with (L)idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. 11 But [f]actually, I [g]wrote to you not to associate [h]with any so-called (M)brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or (N)an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what business of mine is it to judge (O)outsiders? (P)Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God [i]judges. (Q)Remove the evil person from among yourselves.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 5:4 Lit my spirit, with the power
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or that you are to turn
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Lit flesh
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:5 One early ms Lord Jesus
  5. 1 Corinthians 5:6 I.e., fermented dough
  6. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit now
  7. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Or have written
  8. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit together if anyone called a brother is
  9. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Or will judge

So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over(A) to Satan(B) for the destruction of the flesh,[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.(C)

Your boasting is not good.(D) Don’t you know that a little yeast(E) leavens the whole batch of dough?(F) Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.(G) Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread(H) of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate(I) with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world(J) who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[c](K) but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater(L) or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.(M)

12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside(N) the church? Are you not to judge those inside?(O) 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”[d](P)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or of his body
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 8:11, 13.
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Deut. 13:5; 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7

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)punishment of wrong! In everything you (C)demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

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

11 See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern,(A) what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

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