1Cor.5.1

I also received a report of scandalous sex within your church family, a kind that wouldn't be tolerated even outside the church: One of your men is sleeping with his stepmother.

1Cor.5.1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.

1Cor.5.1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!

1Cor.5.1

I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you, something so evil that even the pagans don't do it. I am told that you have a man in your church who is living in sin with his father's wife.

1Cor.5.2

And you're so above it all that it doesn't even faze you! Shouldn't this break your hearts? Shouldn't it bring you to your knees in tears? Shouldn't this person and his conduct be confronted and dealt with?

1Cor.5.2

And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?

1Cor.5.2

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

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And you are so proud of yourselves! Why aren't you mourning in sorrow and shame? And why haven't you removed this man from your fellowship?

1Cor.5.3

I'll tell you what I would do. Even though I'm not there in person, consider me right there with you, because I can fully see what's going on. I'm telling you that this is wrong. You must not simply look the other way and hope it goes away on its own. Bring it out in the open and deal with it in the authority of Jesus our Master.

1Cor.5.3

Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

1Cor.5.3

For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.

1Cor.5.3

Even though I am not there with you in person, I am with you in the Spirit. Concerning the one who has done this, I have already passed judgment

1Cor.5.4

Assemble the community--I'll be present in spirit with you and our Master Jesus will be present in power.

1Cor.5.4

When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,

1Cor.5.4

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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in the name of the Lord Jesus. You are to call a meeting of the church, and I will be there in spirit, and the power of the Lord Jesus will be with you as you meet.

1Cor.5.5

Hold this man's conduct up to public scrutiny. Let him defend it if he can! But if he can't, then out with him! It will be totally devastating to him, of course, and embarrassing to you. But better devastation and embarrassment than damnation. You want him on his feet and forgiven before the Master on the Day of Judgment.

1Cor.5.5

hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.

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deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1Cor.5.5

Then you must cast this man out of the church and into Satan's hands, so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved when the Lord returns.

1Cor.5.6

Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it's anything but that. Yeast, too, is a "small thing," but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast.

1Cor.5.6

Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?

1Cor.5.6

Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

1Cor.5.6

How terrible that you should boast about your spirituality, and yet you let this sort of thing go on. Don't you realize that if even one person is allowed to go on sinning, soon all will be affected?

1Cor.5.7

So get rid of this "yeast." Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast.

1Cor.5.7

Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

1Cor.5.7

Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

1Cor.5.7

Remove this wicked person from among you so that you can stay pure. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.

1Cor.5.8

So let's live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread--simple, genuine, unpretentious.

1Cor.5.8

Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

1Cor.5.8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1Cor.5.8

So let us celebrate the festival, not by eating the old bread of wickedness and evil, but by eating the new bread of purity and truth.

1Cor.5.9

I wrote you in my earlier letter that you shouldn't make yourselves at home among the sexually promiscuous.

1Cor.5.9

I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people--

1Cor.5.9

I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.

1Cor.5.9

When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin.

1Cor.5.10

I didn't mean that you should have nothing at all to do with outsiders of that sort. Or with crooks, whether blue- or white-collar. Or with spiritual phonies, for that matter. You'd have to leave the world entirely to do that!

1Cor.5.10

not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

1Cor.5.10

Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

1Cor.5.10

But I wasn't talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or who are greedy or are swindlers or idol worshipers. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that.

1Cor.5.11

But I am saying that you shouldn't act as if everything is just fine when one of your Christian companions is promiscuous or crooked, is flip with God or rude to friends, gets drunk or becomes greedy and predatory. You can't just go along with this, treating it as acceptable behavior.

1Cor.5.11

But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

1Cor.5.11

But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--not even to eat with such a person.

1Cor.5.11

What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a Christian yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Don't even eat with such people.

1Cor.5.12

I'm not responsible for what the outsiders do, but don't we have some responsibility for those within our community of believers?

1Cor.5.12

What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

1Cor.5.12

For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

1Cor.5.12

It isn't my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your job to judge those inside the church who are sinning in these ways.

1Cor.5.13

God decides on the outsiders, but we need to decide when our brothers and sisters are out of line and, if necessary, clean house.

1Cor.5.13

God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."

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But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."

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God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, "You must remove the evil person from among you."