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Remove Sexually Immoral People From Your Church: A Little Leaven Leavens The Lump

Sexual-immorality is actually being heard-of among you— and such sexual immorality which is not even among the Gentiles, that someone has[a] the wife of his father. And you are puffed-up, and did not mourn instead, in order that the one having done this deed might be taken out of your midst. For indeed I, being absent in the body but present in the[b] spirit, have already judged— as-though being present— the one having thus committed this thing.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:1 That is, has his step mother as his wife.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:3 That is, my spirit, as in v 4.

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.

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