1 Corinthians 5

New King James Version

Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reportedthat there issexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even^[a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s^(A)wife!^2 (B)And you are^[b]puffed up, and have not rather^(C)mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.^3 (D)For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.⁴ In the^(E)name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit,^(F)with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,^5 (G)deliver such a one to^(H)Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord^[c]Jesus.

^6 (I)Your gloryingisnot good. Do you not know that^(J)a little leaven leavens the whole lump?⁷ Therefore^[d]purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed^(K)Christ, our^(L)Passover, was sacrificed^[e]for us.⁸ Therefore^(M)let us keep the feast,^(N)not with old leaven, nor^(O)with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavenedbreadof sincerity and truth.

Immorality Must Be Judged

⁹ I wrote to you in my epistle^(P)not to^[f]keep company with sexually immoral people.¹⁰ YetIcertainlydidnotmeanwith the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go^(Q)out of the world.¹¹ But now I have written to you not to keep company^(R)with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—^(S)not even to eat with such a person.

¹² For whathaveIto dowith judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?¹³ But those who are outside God judges. Therefore^(T)“put away from yourselves the evil person.”