 1 It is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even+ named among the Gentiles: That one should have his father's wife. 2 And you are puffed up, instead+ of mourning so that the one who has done this deed might be taken out from among you. 3 For truly+, even though I am absent in body, but present in the spirit, I have already judged this as though I were present, concerning the one who has done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit with you, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your boasting+ is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven permeates+ the whole lump? 7 Therefore, purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are, unleavened. For Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in an epistle to not keep company with fornicators. 10 Yet that does not mean entirely+ isolated from the fornicators of this world or from the covetous or extortioners or from idolaters. For then you must need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you to not keep company with them if anyone who is called a believer+ is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer~ or a drunkard or an extortioner. Do not even eat with such a one. 12 Should I judge those who are outside+ the faith? No. But do you not judge those who are within? 13 God judges those who are outside+. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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