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1 Corinthians 5

There's a scandal in the church that even pagans would blush at, and they're proud of it. Paul says: deal with it. A little yeast works through the whole batch.

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Expel the immoral

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father's wife. And you are proud. Shouldn't you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgement in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch — as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father's wife.

King James Version, 1611

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.

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And you are proud. Shouldn't you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this?

King James Version, 1611

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

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For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgement in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this.

King James Version, 1611

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,

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So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,

King James Version, 1611

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

King James Version, 1611

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.

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Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

King James Version, 1611

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

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Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch — as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

King James Version, 1611

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:

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Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

King James Version, 1611

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.

Do not associate

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. Expel the wicked person from among you.

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

King James Version, 1611

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

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not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

King James Version, 1611

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.

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But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

King James Version, 1611

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.

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What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

King James Version, 1611

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

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God will judge those outside. Expel the wicked person from among you.

King James Version, 1611

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.