1 Corinthians 5:1-5

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Immoral Church Members

5 It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality^(A) among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated^[a] among the Gentiles^(B)—a man is living with his father’s wife.^{(C) 2} And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief^(D) so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation. ³ For though I am absent in body but present in spirit,^(E) I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present. ⁴ When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,^(F) so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.^(G)