“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 judged 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 sacrificed for us: 8
Therefore let us keep the feast, 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.” (1 Corinthians 5:1-13 AV)
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