1 We heard a report that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is not even permitted among the Gentiles. The report is that one of you is sleeping with his father's wife. 2 You are so arrogant! Should you not mourn instead? The one who did this must be removed from among you. 3 For even though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit. I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as though I were there. 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, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole loaf? 7 Cleanse yourselves of the old yeast so that you may be new dough, so that you may be unleavened bread. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 So let us then celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of bad behavior and wickedness. Instead, let us celebrate with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. 10 In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy, or swindlers, or idolaters, since to stay away from them you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother but who is living in sexual immorality, or who is greedy, or is an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or is a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat a meal with such a person. 12 For how am I involved with judging those who are outside the church? Instead, are you not to judge those who are inside the church? 13 But God judges those who are on the outside. “Remove the evil person from among you.”
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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)