Discipline and Prayer

¹⁵ “^(A)If your brother sins^[a], go and ^[b]show him his fault ^[c]in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. ¹⁶ But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that ^(B)by the mouth of two or three witnesses every ^[d]fact may be confirmed. ¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, ^(C)tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, ^(D)let him be to you as ^[e]a Gentile and ^[f]a tax collector.

Immorality Rebuked

5 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has ^(A)his father’s wife. ^2 [a]You ^(B)have become ^[b]arrogant and ^[c]have not ^(C)mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be ^(D)removed from your midst.

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

^6 (K)Your boasting is not good. ^(L)Do you not know that ^(M)a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? ⁷ Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our ^(N)Passover also has been sacrificed. ⁸ Therefore let us celebrate the feast, ^(O)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 ^(P)not to associate with immoral people; ¹⁰ I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with ^(Q)idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. ¹¹ But ^[f]actually, I wrote to you not to associate ^[g]with any so-called ^(R)brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or ^(S)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 ^(T)outsiders? ^(U)Do you not judge those who are within the church? ¹³ But those who are outside, God ^[h]judges. ^(V)Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.

¹⁷ Since there is one ^[a]bread, we ^(A)who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one ^[b]bread.