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1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife! 2 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency! 3 I for my part, present with you in spirit although absent in body, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has so acted. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are all assembled and my spirit is with you, together with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his body, that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind; for in fact you *are* free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ. 8 Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth. 1 Corinthians 5:1-8, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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