Immoral Church Members

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality(A) among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated[a] among the Gentiles(B)—a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.(C) And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief(D) and remove from your congregation the one who did this? Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit.(E) As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,(F) so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.(G)

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  1. 5:1 Other mss read named

Immoral Behavior and Church Discipline

It is reported everywhere that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which does not even exist among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of his father. And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst? For although I[a] am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already passed judgment on the one who has done this in this way, as if I[b] were present. In the name of our Lord Jesus, when[c] you are assembled, and my spirit, together with the power of our Lord Jesus, I have decided[d] to hand over such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:3 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“am absent”) which is understood as concessive
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:3 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were present”) which is understood as conditional
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:4 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“are assembled”)
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:5 The words “I have decided” are implied from the statement “I have already passed judgment” in v. 3