1 Corinthians, 5

1. It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, immorality of a kind that is not found even among gentiles: that one of you is living with his stepmother.

1. It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife.

2. And you so filled with your own self-importance! It would have been better if you had been grieving bitterly, so that the man who has done this thing were turned out of the community.

2. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

3. For my part, however distant I am physically, I am present in spirit and have already condemned the man who behaved in this way, just as though I were present in person.

3. For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment

4. When you have gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus, with the presence of my spirit, and in the power of our Lord Jesus,

4. in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5. hand such a man over to Satan, to be destroyed as far as natural life is concerned, so that on the Day of the Lord his spirit may be saved.

5. you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6. Your self-satisfaction is ill founded. Do you not realise that only a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

6. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

7. Throw out the old yeast so that you can be the fresh dough, unleavened as you are. For our Passover has been sacrificed, that is, Christ;

7. Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.

8. let us keep the feast, then, with none of the old yeast and no leavening of evil and wickedness, but only the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

8. Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9. In my letter, I wrote to you that you should have nothing to do with people living immoral lives.

9. I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral men;

10. I was not including everybody in this present world who is sexually immoral, or everybody who is greedy, or dishonest or worships false gods -- that would mean you would have to cut yourselves off completely from the world.

10. not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy and robbers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

11. In fact what I meant was that you were not to have anything to do with anyone going by the name of brother who is sexually immoral, or is greedy, or worships false gods, or is a slanderer or a drunkard or dishonest; never even have a meal with anybody of that kind.

11. But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber -- not even to eat with such a one.

12. It is no concern of mine to judge outsiders. It is for you to judge those who are inside, is it not?

12. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

13. But outsiders are for God to judge. You must banish this evil-doer from among you.

13. God judges those outside. "Drive out the wicked person from among you."