1 Corinthians 5

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!

And you, you remain arrogant! Rather, you should have wept over this sin and should have expelled this man from your congregation.

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.

When you gather together for worship under the authority of the Lord Jesus, and I am worshiping with you in spirit,

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.

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.

Sin is like that yeast. You must clean out the old yeast and throw it away, so that it cannot grow and spread throughout the whole batch of dough. You are like an unleavened batch of dough. As in the Passover Festival, the yeast must be kept away from the bread. For Christ is our Passover lamb: He became the sacrifice for us.

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.

I wrote to you that you must not keep company with sexually immoral people.

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.

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!

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.

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!"