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1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and a kind of immorality which does not even exist among the Gentiles— that a man has his father’ s wife.
2 And you are proud! Should you not mourn instead, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you.
3 For even though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit. I have already passed judgment on the one who did such a thing, just as though I were there.
4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 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.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole loaf?
7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be new dough, so that you may be unleavened bread. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
8 So let us then celebrate the festival, not with old yeast, nor with yeast of bad behavior and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10 In no way did I mean all the immoral people of this world, or the greedy, or swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother but who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
12 For what do I have to do with judging those outside? Are you not to judge those inside?
13 But God judges those who are outside. “Remove that evil person from among you.”
The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians