Immoral Church Members
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality t among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated Z among the Gentiles u—a man is sleeping with his father’s wife. v 2 And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief w and remove from your congregation the one who did this? 3 Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit. x 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. 4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, y so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. z
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven A,a leavens the whole batch of dough? b 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb c has been sacrificed. B 8 Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil, d but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Church Discipline
9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate e with sexually immoral people. f 10 I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy g and swindlers h or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world. i 11 But actually, I wrote C you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister j and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard k or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. 12 For what business is it of mine to judge l outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside? 13 God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you. D,m