1 Corinthians 5
5
On Incest and Other Vices in the Church
1 It is actually reported* that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality which does not even exist among the Gentiles, so that someone has his father’s wife. 2 But you have become inflated with arrogance, and have not rather mourned, so that the one who has done this deed might be removed from your midst. 3 For I, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged the one who has intentionally worked out this deed* in this way, as though I were present. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus,* when you are gathered, and with my spirit, along with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his* spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.*
6 Your boasting* is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the entire batch of dough? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven, so that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity* and truth.*
9 I wrote to you in my* letter not to associate with the sexually immoral— 10 not at all referring* to the sexually immoral of this world, or the covetous and extortionists, or idolaters, for then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to associate with anyone who professes to be a brother, if he is a sexually immoral person, or a covetous person, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortionist—not even to eat with such an individual.
12 For what is to me to judge those outside? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 But those outside God will judge. Expel the wicked one from among yourselves.
Notes
1 Or It is reported everywhere
3 The noun deed is contextually supplied for clarity
4 Some ancient manuscripts read in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ; three ancient Greek manuscripts read in the name of Jesus ; one ancient Greek manuscript reads in the name of Jesus Christ
5 Greek the . In this context, the Greek definite article functions pronominally, thus translating to his
5 Some ancient manuscripts instead read in the day of the Lord Jesus ; one ancient Greek manuscript reads in the day of Jesus Christ ; yet other ancient manuscripts read in the day of our Jesus Christ
6 Or glorying
8 Or sincerity
7b-8 Or For Christ our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed, so that we may celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and of truth
9 Greek the . In this context, the Greek definite article functions pronominally, thus translating to my
10 The present participle referring is supplied on contextual considerations for the sake of clarity
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Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
