Immorality Rebuked
(Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)

1Sexual immorality is actually heard of among you⁺, and sexual immorality such as is not even† among the nations, so as for one to have the wife of the father. 2And you⁺ are puffed up! And did you not rather mourn, so that the one having done this work might be removed out of your⁺ midst?

3For I indeed, being absent in body but being present in spirit, have already judged the one having thus carried this out, as being present, 4in the name our Lord Jesus,† in your⁺ having been gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of the Lord Jesus, 5to deliver up such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.†

6Your⁺ boasting is not good. Do you⁺ not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Cleanse out† the old leaven, so that you⁺ may be a new lump, as you⁺ are, unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed,† 8so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, not with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Expel the Immoral Brother

9I wrote to you⁺ in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people, 10not altogether with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the coveters and† swindlers, or idolaters—since then you⁺ would need to go out from the world. 11But now I wrote to you⁺ not to associate with anyone being named a brother if he may be sexually immoral or a coveter, or an idolater or a reviler, or a drunkard or a swindler—with such a one not even to eat.

12For what is it to me to judge those outside? Do you⁺ not judge those inside? 13But God judges those outside. “Expel the wicked one from among yourselves.”†

Footnotes:

1 BYZ and TR not even named
4 BYZ and TR in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
5 BYZ and TR the Lord Jesus
7 TR Cleanse out, therefore,
7 BYZ and TR include for us.
10 BYZ and TR or
13 Or Expel the evil from among you; Deuteronomy 13:5, 17:7, 19:19, 21:21, 22:21, 22:24, and 24:7