고린도전서 5

Sexual sin the church tolerates

¹People are actually saying that sexual immorality is going on among you, immorality of a kind that even the Gentiles do not allow: one of you is living with his father’s wife.^{a 2}And you are puffed up! Why were you not grieving instead, so that the man who did this would be removed from among you? ³As for me, I am away in body but there in spirit, and I have already reached my verdict on the man who has done such a thing, as surely as if I were with you. ⁴When you are gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus, and my spirit is with you, together with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, with the aim that on the day of the Lord his spirit may be saved.^bcd

Clear out the old yeast

⁶Your pride is not a good thing. Do you not realize that just a pinch of yeast makes all the dough rise? ⁷Clear out every trace of the old yeast, so that you can be a fresh batch of dough without yeast, which is what you really are. For Christ has been sacrificed as our Passover lamb.^{e 8}So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast, nor with yeast that is malice and wickedness, but with bread made without yeast: sincerity and truth.

Judging those inside the church

⁹When I wrote to you in my earlier letter, I told you not to mix with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰I did not mean the sexually immoral people of this world in general, nor the greedy and swindlers, nor idolaters. To do that, you would need to leave the world altogether. ¹¹But what I am writing to you now is this: keep away from anyone who goes by the name of brother or sister and yet is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even sit down to eat with such a person.^{f 12}Is it my place to judge those outside? Are not those inside the ones you are to judge, ¹³while God judges those outside?^g Drive out the evildoer from among you.