5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has his father’s wife.
5:2 ①You have become ②arrogant and ③have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
▷ ①Or have you...? ②Lit puffed up ③Or have you...?
5:3 For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.
5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and ①I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
▷ ①Lit my spirit, with the power
5:5 I have decided ①to turn such a person over to Satan for the destruction of his ②body, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the ③Lord.
▷ ①Or that you are to turn ②Lit flesh ③One early ms Lord Jesus
5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little ①leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
▷ ①I.e., fermented dough
5:7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
5:8 Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
5:9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people;
5:10 I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world.
5:11 But ①actually, I ②wrote to you not to associate ③with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person.
▷ ①Lit now ②Or have written ③Lit together if anyone called a brother is
5:12 For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?
5:13 But those who are outside, God ①judges. REMOVE THE EVIL PERSON FROM AMONG YOURSELVES.
▷ ①Or will judge