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。

A horrible sin and a stern remedy

1-2 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and immorality of a kind that even pagans condemn—a man has apparently taken his father’s wife! Are you still proud of your church? Shouldn’t you be overwhelmed with sorrow and shame? The man who has done such a thing should certainly be expelled from your fellowship!

3-5 I know I am not with you physically but I am with you in spirit, and I assure you as solemnly as if I were actually present before your assembly that I have already pronounced judgment in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done this thing, and I do this with full divine authority. My judgment is this: that the man should be left to the mercy of Satan so that while his body will experience the destructive powers of sin his spirit may yet be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6-8 Your pride in your church is lamentably out of place. Don’t you know how a little yeast can permeate the whole lump? Clear out every bit of the old yeast that you may be new unleavened bread! We Christians have had a Passover lamb sacrificed for us—none other than Christ himself! So let us “keep the feast” with no trace of the yeast of the old life, nor the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of unadulterated truth!

9-13 In my previous letter I said, “Don’t mix with the immoral.” I didn’t mean, of course, that you were to have no contact at all with the immoral of this world, nor with any cheats or thieves or idolaters—for that would mean going out of the world altogether! But in this letter I tell you not to associate with any professing Christian who is known to be an impure man or a swindler, an idolater, a man with a foul tongue, a drunkard or a thief. My instruction is: “Don’t even eat with such a man.” Those outside the church it is not my business to judge. but surely it is your business to judge those who are inside the church—God alone can judge those who are outside. It is your plain duty to ‘put away from yourselves that wicked person’.