1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,
and such fornication as is not so much as named among the
Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he
that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have
judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that
hath so done this deed,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered
together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the
flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven
leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,
as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is
sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither
with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with
fornicators:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with
the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then
must ye needs go out of the world.
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any
man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or
an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner;
with such an one no not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do
not ye judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from
among yourselves that wicked person.
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