Chapter 5

He excommunicates the incestuous adulterer, and admonishes them to purge out the old leaven.

1. 1

   It is heard for certain that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as the like is not among the heathens: that some one hath his father's wife.

2. 2

   And you are puffed up: and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, who hath done this deed.

3. 3

   I indeed absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,

4. 4

   In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5. 5

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

6. 6

   Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole mass?

7. 7

   Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Pasch, is sacrificed.

8. 8

   Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9. 9

   I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.

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    I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

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    But now I have written to you, not to keep company: if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not so much as to eat.

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    For what have I to do to judge them that are without ? Do not you judge them that are within?

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    For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.