1 Corinthians 5:1-8 ▼

1 we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

2 this you have made a matter of levity, instead of being concern'd in discarding him that has done such an action.

3 as for me, though I am absent in person, yet being present by my authority, with regard to him that has committed this fact, I am come to the same resolution, as if I was present,

4 that is, when you are assembled, and I virtually there, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 to deliver him up to satan, to suffer corporal punishment, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

6 Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?

7 purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, since you should be without leaven, for Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed for us.

8 therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with unaffected sincerity and truth.