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Judgment Against Immorality

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father’s wife. But you are arrogant. Instead you should have mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you. For indeed, though absent in body but present in spirit, I have already, as if I were present, judged him who has done this deed, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you are assembled, along with my spirit, in the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver him to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus.

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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