1 Corinthians 5
13 verses
A case of sexual immorality—a man living with his father's wife—has arisen, and the Corinthians have boasted rather than mourned, failing to remove the one who did this thing from their midst. Paul issues a directive: deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord, a severe but redemptive measure. He invokes the Passover: clean out the old leaven, for Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed; celebrate the feast with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, not with the old leaven of malice and evil. Paul clarifies a previous letter he wrote warning against associating with the sexually immoral: he meant those inside the church, not those outside the world, for you are not to judge those outside but only those inside. If someone inside is immoral or a drunkard or swindler, you must not even eat with such a person. God judges those outside; the assembly judges those inside.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
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And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
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For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
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In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
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Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
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Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
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But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
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For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
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But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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