Immorality Rebuked (Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)
1 RV It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath 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 RV And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you. 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 RV For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him that hath so wrought this thing, 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 RV in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with 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 RV to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 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 RV Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? BSB BSB: Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
8 RV wherefore 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. 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 RV I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; BSB BSB: I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10 RV not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the 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 RV but now I write unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat. 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 RV For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within, BSB BSB: What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
13 RV whereas them that are without God judgeth? Put away the wicked man from among yourselves. BSB BSB: God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
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