- 1It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
- 2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
- 3For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
- 4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
- 6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- 7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
- 8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
- 9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
- 10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
- 11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
- 12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
- 13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
KING JAMES VERSION
1 CORINTHIANS 5
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1 Corinthians 5 — The church must mourn serious unrepentant sin, remove corrupting leaven, and keep the feast in sincerity and truth.
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Spoiled leaven, fresh bread, communal grief, and a dignified departing figure communicate discipline without depicting sexual misconduct. The Passover sacrifice is indicated by the prepared table rather than repeated as a graphic scene.
Scripture basis: 1 Corinthians 5:1–13King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom
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