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。

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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. So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over(F) to Satan(G) for the destruction of the flesh,[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.(H)

Your boasting is not good.(I) Don’t you know that a little yeast(J) leavens the whole batch of dough?(K) 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.(L) Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread(M) of sincerity and truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or of his body