A Family That Refuses to Mourn
5 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and a kind of immorality not even found among those who don't know the Father: a man has his father's wife. 2 And you are proud! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this would be removed from among you? 3 For though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and I have already passed judgment on the one who committed this, as though I were present. 4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and my spirit is present with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old yeast, so that you may be a new batch, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people 10 —not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would have to leave the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person do not even eat. 12 For what business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 Our Father judges those outside. "Expel the wicked person from among you."