Immorality Rebuked (Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)
1 UDB People have even told us that there is someone in your church who is living in sexual immorality, a kind of immorality that even the unbelievers do not allow. A man has a sexual relationship with his father's wife! 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 UDB And you, you remain arrogant! Rather, you should have wept over this sin and should have expelled this man from your congregation. 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 UDB I am not with you physically, but I am very concerned for you all, and I am with you in my spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as if I were with you. 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 UDB When you gather together for worship under the authority of the Lord Jesus, and I am worshiping with you in spirit, 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 UDB you should hand this man over to the control of Satan so that his physical body might be destroyed, but God may save his spirit on the day of the Lord's return. 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 UDB It is not good that you are praising yourselves. Surely you know that evil is like yeast: A little yeast makes the whole loaf rise. BSB BSB: Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
8 UDB So let us celebrate the Passover Festival, and let us follow all the rules of purification. We must throw out the old yeast, which stands for disobedience and wickedness, and we must celebrate the festival by obeying God and speaking truth to each other. If we do that, we will be like the bread that has no yeast. 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 UDB I wrote to you that you must not keep company with sexually immoral people. BSB BSB: I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10 UDB Of course I did not mean that you should not associate with unbelievers who are immoral, or who selfishly desire many things, or who trick and cheat to take from others, or who worship idols. You would have to leave this world to avoid all people like that. 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 UDB Instead, I mean that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a fellow believer but is sexually immoral, or is greedy in matters of money, or worships idols, or uses abusive speech, or gets drunk, or cheats people. Do not even eat a meal with anyone like that! 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 UDB For I have no obligation to judge those who are outside the church of Christ. Your duty is to judge those who are in it. BSB BSB: What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
13 UDB God is the one who will judge those who are outside the church. The scriptures command us, "You must take away the evil person who is among you!" BSB BSB: God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
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