1 Corinthians 5 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Immorality Rebuked

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is condemned even among the Gentiles: that someone has his father’s wife.

2And you are proud and arrogant! You should have mourned in shame so that the man who has done this thing would be removed from your fellowship!

3For I, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already passed judgment on him who has committed this, as if I were present.

4In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5you are to hand over this man to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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

7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new batch, just as you are, still unleavened. For Christ our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed.

8Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people—

10not meaning the immoral people of this world, or the greedy ones and swindlers, or idolaters, for then you would have to get out of the world and human society altogether!

11But actually, I have written to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an idolater, or is a reviler, or is a drunkard or a swindler—you must not so much as eat with such a person.

12For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders (non-believers)? Do you not judge those who are within the church?

13God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside. Remove the wicked one from among you.