1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and a kind as does not even occur1756 among the Gentiles, [namely] that someone has his father’s wife! 2And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that whoever has done this would have been removed from among you? 3For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged the man1757 who has done this thing! 4In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5you are to hand over such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be delivered1758 in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6Your self-satisfaction is not healthy.1759 Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? 7Purge out the old yeast, so that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. And certainly, Christ, [who is] our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place. 8Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9I wrote to you in my letter to have no fellowship with those who are immoral; 10yet I did not mean with the immoral people of this world, or with those who are greedy, dishonest, or idolaters; or else you would have to leave the world! 11But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother1760 who is a sexual sinner, or greedy, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or someone dishonest. [In fact], do not even eat with such a person! 12Indeed, what do I have to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are within? 13But those who are outside, God judges.
“Therefore, put away the wicked man from among yourselves!”1761
Lawsuits among Christians
- Literally “not even named”
- Greek “him”
- Or “saved/rescued”
- Or “good”
- Or “a brother or sister”
- Deuteronomy 17:7. NT agrees with LXX against MT (See also 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7)
Text: The Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible, New Testament (EOB). Used with permission.
