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1 Corinthians 5 (AMP)

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¹ IT IS actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, impurity of a sort that is condemned and does not occur even among the heathen; for a man has father's wife. ² And you are proud and arrogant! And you ought rather to mourn (bow in sorrow and in shame) until the person who has done this thing is removed from your fellowship and your midst! ³ As for my attitude, though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and I have already decided and passed judgment, as if actually present, ⁴ In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, on the man who has committed such a deed. When you and my own spirit are met together with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ You are to deliver this man over to Satan for physical discipline , that spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ your boasting is not good . Do you not know that a little leaven will ferment the whole lump ? ⁷ Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated , for Christ, our Passover , has been sacrificed. ⁸ Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity and truth. ⁹ I wrote you in my letter not to associate with unchaste (impure) people-- ¹⁰ Not altogether shun the immoral people of this world, or the greedy graspers and cheats and thieves or idolaters, since otherwise you would need to get out of the world and human society altogether! ¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater , or is a person with a foul tongue , or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. you must not so much as eat with such a person. ¹² What of mine is it and what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not those inside upon whom you are to pass disciplinary judgment ? ¹³ God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside. Drive out that wicked one from among you .