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1 Corinthians

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, worse than even among unbelievers. One of you has his father’s wife! You have become arrogant, when you should have mourned and removed the one who did this from among you. Even though I am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already, as if I were present, judged him who has done this. When you are gathered together in the name of our lord Jesus, with me there in spirit, and with the power of our lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not good. Do you not understand that a little yeast works its way through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of this old yeast so that you can become a new batch, because you are in fact unleavened. For Messiah, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. So let us be celebrating the festival continuously, not with the old yeast, the yeast of sin and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of genuineness and truth. In my previous letter I wrote to you not to associate with sexually immoral people. I certainly did not mean the immoral people of this world, or the covetous and thieves or idolaters, because in that case you would have to leave the world entirely! What I meant was not to associate with any so-called brother or sister who is sexually immoral, covetous, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a thief. Do not even eat with such a person. For what business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Should you not be judging those who are in the church? But God will judge those who are outside the church. “Expel that wicked man from among you.”

1 Corinthians