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1 Corinthians 5:2-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

2 And you are inflated with pride.[a] Should you not rather have been sorrowful? The one who did this deed should be expelled from your midst. 3 I, for my part, although absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as if present, pronounced judgment on the one who has committed this deed,(A) 4 in the name of [our] Lord Jesus: when you have gathered together and I am with you in spirit with the power of the Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan[b] for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.(B)

6 (C)Your boasting is not appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast[c] leavens all the dough? 7 [d]Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.(D) 8 Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.(E)

9 [e]I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people, 10 not at all referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world.(F) 11 But I now write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, if he is immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a robber, not even to eat with such a person.(G) 12 For why should I be judging outsiders? Is it not your business to judge those within? 13 God will judge those outside. “Purge the evil person from your midst.”(H)

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  1. 5:2 Inflated with pride: this remark and the reference to boasting in 1 Cor 5:6 suggest that they are proud of themselves despite the infection in their midst, tolerating and possibly even approving the situation. The attitude expressed in 1 Cor 6:2, 13 may be influencing their thinking in this case.
  2. 5:5 Deliver this man to Satan: once the sinner is expelled from the church, the sphere of Jesus’ lordship and victory over sin, he will be in the region outside over which Satan is still master. For the destruction of his flesh: the purpose of the penalty is medicinal: through affliction, sin’s grip over him may be destroyed and the path to repentance and reunion laid open. With Paul’s instructions for an excommunication ceremony here, contrast his recommendations for the reconciliation of a sinner in 2 Cor 2:5–11.
  3. 5:6 A little yeast: yeast, which induces fermentation, is a natural symbol for a source of corruption that becomes all-pervasive. The expression is proverbial.
  4. 5:7–8 In the Jewish calendar, Passover was followed immediately by the festival of Unleavened Bread. In preparation for this feast all traces of old bread were removed from the house, and during the festival only unleavened bread was eaten. The sequence of these two feasts provides Paul with an image of Christian existence: Christ’s death (the true Passover celebration) is followed by the life of the Christian community, marked by newness, purity, and integrity (a perpetual feast of unleavened bread). Paul may have been writing around Passover time (cf. 1 Cor 16:5); this is a little Easter homily, the earliest in Christian literature.
  5. 5:9–13 Paul here corrects a misunderstanding of his earlier directives against associating with immoral fellow Christians. He concedes the impossibility of avoiding contact with sinners in society at large but urges the Corinthians to maintain the inner purity of their own community.
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1 Corinthians 5:2-13
Legacy Standard Bible

2 And [a]you (A)have become puffed up and [b]have not (B)mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be (C)removed from your midst.

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

6 (J)Your boasting is not good. (K)Do you not know that (L)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 (M)Passover lamb, also was sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, (N)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 (O)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 (P)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 (Q)brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or greedy, or (R)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 (S)outsiders? (T)Are you not to judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God will judge. (U)Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:2 Or have you...?
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:2 Or have you...?
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:4 Lit my spirit, with the power
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Some mss Jesus, Jesus Christ
  5. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit together if any man called a brother is
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