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| 1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. | 1I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother. |
| 2And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. | 2You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship. |
| 3For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. | 3Even though I am not with you in person, I am with you in the Spirit. And as though I were there, I have already passed judgment on this man |
| 4When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, | 4in the name of the Lord Jesus. You must call a meeting of the church. I will be present with you in spirit, and so will the power of our Lord Jesus. |
| 5you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. | 5Then you must throw this man out and hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns. |
| 6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? | 6Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough? |
| 7Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. | 7Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. |
| 8Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. | 8So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity and truth. |
| 9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— | 9When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. |
| 10not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. | 10But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or are greedy, or cheat people, or worship idols. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that. |
| 11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. | 11I meant that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or is a drunkard, or cheats people. Don’t even eat with such people. |
| 12For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? | 12It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. |
| 13God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.” | 13God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.” |
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