Chapter 5

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not found even among the Gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned so that he who has done this deed might be put away from your midst.

I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though present, passed judgment

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ on the one who has so acted---you and my spirit gathered together with the power of our Lord Jesus---

to deliver such a one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Your boasting is unseemly. Do you not know that a little leaven ferments the whole lump?

Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new dough, as you really are without leaven. For Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed.

Therefore let us keep festival, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Punishment by Excommunication

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with the immoral---

not meaning, of course, the immoral of this world, or the covetous, or the greedy, or idolators; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

But now I write to you not to associate with one who is called a brother, if he is immoral, or covetous, or an idolator, or evil-tongued, or a drunkard, or greedy; with such a one not even to take food.

For what have I to do with judging those outside? Is it not those inside whom you judge?

For those outside God will judge. "Expel the wicked man from your midst."