I have decided [a]to (A)turn such a person over to (B)Satan for the destruction of his [b]body, so that his spirit may be saved on (C)the day of the [c]Lord.

(D)Your boasting is not good. (E)Do you not know that (F)a little [d]leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our (G)Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, (H)not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or that you are to turn
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Lit flesh
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:5 One early ms Lord Jesus
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:6 I.e., fermented dough

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