1   It is17Q0325 commonly reported, that there is fornication ^note among you, and such fornication, as is not even named among the heathens, that one should have his father's wife. 2   And are ye puffed up? ^note Have ye not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed, might be taken from among you? 3   For I verily as absent in body, but present in spirit, ^note have already, 4   as if I were present, judged him who hath so done this, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, ^note 5   with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one ^note to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6   Your glorying ^note is not good: know ye

not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7   Purge out therefore the old leaven, ^note that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for our passover is slain for us, even Christ: 8   Therefore let us keep the feast; ^note not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and malignity, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9   I wrote to you in ^note an epistle, Not to converse with lewd persons. 10   But ^note not altogether with the lewd persons of this world, or the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters, for then ye must go out of the world. 11   But I have now written unto you, if any who is named a brother, ^note be a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to converse with such an one, no, not to eat with him. 12   For what have I to do, to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? ^note 13   (But them that are without God will judge:) ^note And ye will take away from among yourselves that wicked person.

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