1   It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife.

2   And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed.

3   I indeed absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,

4   In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5   To deliver such a one to satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

6   Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

7   Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our pasch, is sacrificed

8   Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9   I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.

10   I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

11   But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such an one not so much as to eat.

12   For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within?

13   For them, that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

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