Sexual Immorality in the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has ^(A)his father’s wife. ² And ^[a]you ^(B)have become puffed up and ^[b]have not ^(C)mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be ^(D)removed from your midst.

³ For I, on my part, though ^(E)absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present: ^4 (F)in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and ^[c]I with you in spirit, ^(G)with the power of our Lord Jesus, ^5 (H)deliver such a one to ^(I)Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in ^(J)the day of ^[d]the Lord.

^6 (K)Your boasting is not good. ^(L)Do you not know that ^(M)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷ Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ, our ^(N)Passover lamb, also was sacrificed. ⁸ Therefore let us celebrate the feast, ^(O)not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ I wrote you in my letter ^(P)not to associate with sexually immoral people; ¹⁰ I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with ^(Q)idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I am writing to you not to associate ^[e]with any so-called ^(R)brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or greedy, or ^(S)an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one. ¹² For what have I to do with judging ^(T)outsiders? ^(U)Are you not to judge those who are within the church? ¹³ But those who are outside, God will judge. ^(V)Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.