Immorality Rebuked (Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)
1 CPDV Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father. BSB BSB: It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
2 CPDV And yet you are inflated, and you have not instead been grieved, so that he who has done this thing would be taken away from your midst. BSB BSB: And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
3 CPDV Certainly, though absent in body, I am present in spirit. Thus, I have already judged, as if I were present, him who has done this. BSB BSB: Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
4 CPDV In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you have been gathered together with my spirit, in the power of our Lord Jesus, BSB BSB: When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
5 CPDV to hand over such a one as this to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. BSB BSB: hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
6 CPDV It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass? BSB BSB: Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
8 CPDV And so, let us feast, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. BSB BSB: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
Expel the Immoral Brother 9 CPDV As I have written to you in an epistle: “Do not associate with fornicators,” BSB BSB: I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10 CPDV certainly not with the fornicators of this world, nor with the greedy, nor with robbers, nor with the servants of idolatry. Otherwise, you ought to depart from this world. BSB BSB: I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
11 CPDV But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food. BSB BSB: But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
12 CPDV For what have I to do with judging those who are outside? But do not even you yourselves judge those who are inside? BSB BSB: What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
13 CPDV For those who are outside, God will judge. But send this evil person away from yourselves. BSB BSB: God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
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