1 Corinthians 5
5
Immoral Church Members
1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality#1Th 4:3 among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated#5:1 Other mss read named among the Gentiles#Gl 1:16 — a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.#Lv 18:8; Dt 22:30; 27:20 2And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief#Lk 6:25 and remove from your congregation the one who did this? 3Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit.#Col 2:5; 1Th 2:17 As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing. 4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,#1Jn 5:16 so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.#Mt 25:13; Ac 2:20; Php 1:6
6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven#5:6 Or yeast, also in vv. 7,8#Lk 13:21; Gl 5:9 leavens the whole batch of dough?#Lk 13:21 7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb#Ex 12 has been sacrificed.#5:7 Other mss add for us 8Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil,#Mk 7:22; Rm 1:29 but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Church Discipline
9I wrote to you in a letter not to associate#2Th 3:14 with sexually immoral people.#1Co 6:9; Eph 5:5; 1Tm 1:10; Heb 12:16; 13:4; Rv 21:8; 22:15 10I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy#Eph 5:5 and swindlers#Lk 18:11 or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.#Jn 17:6 11But actually, I wrote#5:11 Or But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister#2Th 3:6 and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard#1Co 6:10 or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. 12For what business is it of mine to judge#Lk 6:37 outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside? 13God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you.#5:13Dt 17:7#Dt 17:7
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1 Corinthians 5
5
Throw Out the Evil Person!
1It is actually reported that there is sexual sin among you. I’m told that a man is sleeping with his father’s wife. Even people who don’t know God don’t let that kind of sin continue. 2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you be very sad instead? Shouldn’t you have thrown out of your church the man doing this? 3Even though I am not right there with you, I am with you in spirit. And because I am with you in spirit, I have already judged the man doing this. I have judged him in the name of our Lord Jesus. 4So when you come together, I will be with you in spirit. The power of our Lord Jesus will also be with you. 5When you come together like this, hand this man over to Satan. Then the power of sin in his life will be destroyed. His spirit will be saved on the day the Lord returns.
6Your bragging is not good. It is like yeast. Don’t you know that just a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise? 7Get rid of the old yeast. Then you can be like a new batch of dough without yeast. That is what you really are. That’s because Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been offered up for us. 8So let us keep the Feast, but not with the old bread made with yeast. The yeast I’m talking about is hatred and evil. Let us keep the Feast with bread made without yeast. Let us keep it with bread that is honesty and truth.
9I wrote a letter to you to tell you to stay away from people who commit sexual sins. 10I didn’t mean the people of this world who sin in this way. I didn’t mean those who always want more and more. I didn’t mean those who cheat or who worship statues of gods. In that case you would have to leave this world! 11But here is what I am writing to you now. You must stay away from anyone who claims to be a believer but does evil things. Stay away from anyone who commits sexual sins. Stay away from anyone who always wants more and more things. Stay away from anyone who worships statues of gods. Stay away from anyone who tells lies about others. Stay away from anyone who gets drunk or who cheats. Don’t even eat with people like these.
12Is it my business to judge those outside the church? Aren’t you supposed to judge those inside the church? 13God will judge those outside. Scripture says, “Get rid of that evil person!” (Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7)
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