⁹ “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”^(A)

⁸ He waited seven^(A) days, the time set by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and Saul’s men began to scatter. ⁹ So he said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings.” And Saul offered^(B) up the burnt offering. ¹⁰ Just as he finished making the offering, Samuel^(C) arrived, and Saul went out to greet^(D) him.

¹¹ “What have you done?” asked Samuel.

Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash,^{(E) 12} I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal,^(F) and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.^(G)’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”

¹³ “You have done a foolish thing,^(H)” Samuel said. “You have not kept^(I) the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.^{(J) 14} But now your kingdom^(K) will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart^(L) and appointed^(M) him ruler^(N) of his people, because you have not kept^(O) the Lord’s command.”

¹⁵ Then Samuel left Gilgal^[a] and went up to Gibeah^(P) in Benjamin, and Saul counted the men who were with him. They numbered about six hundred.^(Q)

Dealing With a Case of Incest

5 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) 2} 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? ³ 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. ⁴ So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, ⁵ 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)

⁶ Your boasting is not good.^(I) Don’t you know that a little yeast^(J) leavens the whole batch of dough?^{(K) 7} 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) 8} 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.

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter not to associate^(N) with sexually immoral people— ¹⁰ not at all meaning the people of this world^(O) who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. ¹¹ But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister^[c](P) but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater^(Q) or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.^(R)

¹² What business is it of mine to judge those outside^(S) the church? Are you not to judge those inside?^{(T) 13} God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”^[d](U)