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1 Corinthians 5

(CLV) 1 Corinthians 5

1 Absolutely, it is heard that there is prostitution among you, and such prostitution (which is not even named among the nations), so that someone has his father's wife. 2 And you are puffed up, and mourn not rather, that the one who commits this act may be taken away from your midst. 3 For I, indeed, being absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already, as if present, thus judged the one effecting this, 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (you being gathered, and my spirit, together with the power of our Lord Jesus), 5 to give up such a one to Satan for the extermination of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Not ideal is your boast. Are you not aware that a little leaven is leavening the whole kneading? 7 Clean out, then, the old leaven, that you may be a fresh kneading, according as you are unleavened. For our Passover also, Christ, was sacrificed for our sakes 8 so that we may be keeping the festival, not with old leaven, nor yet with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened sincerity and truth. 9 I write to you in the epistle not to be commingling with paramours. 10 And undoubtedly it is not as to the paramours of this world, or the greedy and extortionate, or idolaters, else, consequently, you ought to come out of the world. 11 Yet now I write to you not to be commingling with anyone named a brother, if he should be a paramour, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. With such a one you are not even to be eating. 12 For what is it to me to be judging those outside? You are not judging those within! 13 Now those outside, God is judging. Expel the wicked one from among yourselves.

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