⁶ Your boasting is not good.^(A) Don’t you know that a little yeast^(B) leavens the whole batch of dough?^{(C) 7} 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.^{(D) 8} Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread^(E) of sincerity and truth.

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter not to associate^(F) with sexually immoral people— ¹⁰ not at all meaning the people of this world^(G) 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^[a](H) but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater^(I) or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.^(J)

¹² What business is it of mine to judge those outside^(K) the church? Are you not to judge those inside?^{(L) 13} God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”^[b](M)

Lawsuits Among Believers

6 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people?^{(N) 2} Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world?^(O) And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? ³ Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! ⁴ Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? ⁵ I say this to shame you.^(P) Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?^{(Q) 6} But instead, one brother^(R) takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!^(S)

⁷ The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?^{(T) 8} Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.^(U)