清除淫乱之罪

我听说在你们当中竟有人与继母乱伦。这种淫乱的事,就是连异教徒都做不出来。 你们竟然还自高自大!难道你们不该痛心,把做这事的人从你们当中赶出去吗? 现在,我虽然身在远方,心却在你们那里。我已经审判了做这事的人,就像亲自在场一样。 你们奉我们主耶稣的名聚会时,我的心并我们主耶稣的权能也与你们同在。 你们要把这人交给撒旦去毁坏他的肉体,好使这人的灵魂在主耶稣再来的日子可以得救。

你们自夸不是好事,岂不知一点面酵能使整团面发起来吗? 你们要把旧酵除掉,好成为真正无酵的新面团,因为我们逾越节的羔羊——基督已经被献为祭了。 所以,我们不可带着歹毒邪恶的旧酵守这逾越节,而要用真诚纯洁的无酵饼。

我以前曾经写信吩咐你们,不可与淫乱的人交往。 10 我的意思并不是指世上所有淫乱、贪婪、欺诈与祭拜偶像的人。那样的话,你们将不得不离开这个世界。 11 我的意思是,若有人自称是信徒,却淫乱、贪婪、祭拜偶像、毁谤、酗酒、欺诈,你们不要和他们交往,甚至不要和他们一起吃饭。

12 我何必去审判教会以外的人呢?然而,教会里面的人岂不是该由你们审判吗? 13 上帝自会审判教会以外的人,你们要把那邪恶的人从你们当中赶出去。

Dealing With a Case of Incest

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.(A) And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning(B) and have put out of your fellowship(C) the man who has been doing this? For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit.(D) As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus(E) 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(F) to Satan(G) for the destruction of the flesh,[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.(H)

Your boasting is not good.(I) Don’t you know that a little yeast(J) leavens the whole batch of dough?(K) 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.(L) Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread(M) of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate(N) with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world(O) who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[c](P) but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater(Q) or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.(R)

12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside(S) the church? Are you not to judge those inside?(T) 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”[d](U)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or of his body
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 8:11, 13.
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:13 Deut. 13:5; 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7

I have heard a very bad report about you. I hear there are wrong sexual ways among you. Even the people who are not Jews do not allow wrong sex such as this among them. A man is living with his father's wife!

Can it be that you are still proud? This should make you very sad. The man who has done this should be put out of the church meeting.

My body is not with you, but my spirit is. Just as if I were right there, I have decided what to do about the man who did such a thing as this.

Do this in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you meet together my spirit will be with you. Then, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, give this man over to Satan. Let Satan punish his body. By this the man's spirit may yet be saved when the Lord Jesus comes.

Surely it is not right for you to be proud. Do you not know that only a little yeast in the bread will make all the bread rise?

Clean out the old yeast so that you will become like new bread. You are free from the old things. Christ, the Passover Lamb, has been killed for us.

Let us then remember the feast of Passover and have our bread. But let us not have our feast with old yeast in the bread. To do bad and wrong things is like that old yeast. But let us have it with new bread that has no old yeast in it. To be honest and true is like the new bread.

I wrote a letter to you. I told you not to be friends with people who use sex the wrong way [with a person they are not married to].

I did not mean the people of the world [people who are not Christians] - some of them use sex the wrong way; or always want more things; or steal; or worship idols. To keep away from them altogether would mean you would have to go out of the world.

10 But I wrote to you not to be friends with anyone who says he is a Christian and uses wrong sex, or always wants more, or has idols, or curses, or drinks too much strong drink, or steals. I told you not even to sit down to eat with such a person.

11 Why should I judge the people who are outside the church? You are to judge the church people.

12 God judges those who are outside. The holy writings say, `Send the bad person away from among you.'