CHAPTER 5
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication
among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles,
that one should have his father’s wife. 2 And ye are puffed up,
and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken
away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but
present in spirit, have judgeda already, as though I were present, concerning
him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our
Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the
destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificedb
for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feastc, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with
fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this
world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must
ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you
not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or
covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with
such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them
also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among
yourselves that wicked person.
The
Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems,
Inc.
a
judged: or, determined
b
is sacrificed; or, is slain
c
the feast: or, holyday
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