1 I hear reports that sexual immorality is happening among you, immorality that even the foreigners don't practice. A man is living with his father's wife! 2 You are so proud of yourselves! Shouldn't you have wept with sadness, and excluded the man who did this? 3 Even though I'm not physically present there, I am there in spirit and just as if I were there I've already made my judgment of the one who has done this. 4 When you meet together in the name of the Lord Jesus, I'll be there with you in spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus. 5 Hand over this man to Satan so his sinful nature may be destroyed and he himself be saved on the day of the Lord. 6 You shouldn't be proud about this. Don't you know that it only takes a little yeast to make the whole batch of dough rise? 7 Get rid of this old yeast so that you can be a new batch of dough to make bread without yeast. Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. 8 So let us celebrate this festival, not with old yeast or the yeast of evil and wickedness, but with the bread made without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. 9 In my previous letter I wrote that you should not associate with immoral people. 10 I wasn't referring to the immoral people of this world, those who are greedy and cheat others, or those who worship idols, otherwise you'd have to leave this world! 11 What I meant when I wrote was that you shouldn't associate with anyone who is called a Christian who is immoral or greedy or worships idols; or who is abusive or a drunkard or who cheats others. Don't even share a meal with anyone like that! 12 It's not my place to judge those outside the church. But shouldn't you judge those who are inside the church? 13 God judges those that are outside the church. “Expel the wicked from among you.”
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Cross references (13)
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- 1 Revelation 21:8; Revelation 2:21; Colossians 3:5; Leviticus 18:8; Ephesians 5:3
- 2 Revelation 2:20–22; 2 Corinthians 7:7–11; 1 Corinthians 5:13; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Ezra 10:1–6
- 3 Colossians 2:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 13:2; 2 Corinthians 10:11; 2 Corinthians 10:1
- 4 John 20:23; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Colossians 3:17; Matthew 18:16–18; Matthew 16:19
- 5 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:14–15; Galatians 6:1–2; James 5:19–20; Job 2:6
- 6 Galatians 5:9; 1 Corinthians 15:33; James 4:16; 1 Corinthians 5:2; Luke 13:21
- 7 1 Peter 1:19–20; Ephesians 4:22; Colossians 3:5–9; John 1:29; Exodus 12:15
- 8 1 Peter 2:1–2; Deuteronomy 16:3; Exodus 12:15; Luke 12:1; Matthew 16:6
- 9 Ephesians 5:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:14; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Proverbs 9:6
- 10 1 Corinthians 10:27; John 17:15–16; John 8:23; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Corinthians 1:20
- 11 Romans 16:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:14; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Matthew 18:17; 1 Corinthians 5:13
- 12 Mark 4:11; 1 Timothy 3:7; Luke 12:14; 1 Corinthians 5:3–5; 1 Corinthians 6:1–5
- 13 Deuteronomy 17:7; Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 21:21; Matthew 18:17; Deuteronomy 22:24
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When he was discoursing about their divisions, he did not indeed at once address them vehemently, but more gently at first; and afterwards, he ended in accusation, saying thus, (c.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
And we have the precept: "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 go not to eat." And again does the apostle say, "Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath …
… Master, whom he thought a man, and nothing more, tell him (but He is "good" because He is God)--let Him tell him, that if he would "enter into life" he must "keep the commandments;" let him banish from himself the bitterness of malice and wickedness; let him not kill, nor commit adultery, nor steal, nor bear false witness; that the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… away, or receive more glorious crowns, if the amount of our sins be not so great: hear what Paul says concerning him that had committed fornication, "Deliver ye such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved." "But what is this?" you may say, "for the discourse was about them that were …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… confirmed by the fact that the Apostle uses either word indifferently,--saying at one time "in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God;" at another "when ye are gathered together, and my Spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus," with no idea that it makes any difference to the connexion of the names whether …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)