Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Immorality in the Church
1 Now, it is actually being said
that there is sexual immorality
among you so terrible that not even
the heathen would be guilty of it. I
am told that a man is sleeping with
his stepmother! note
2 How, then, can you
be proud? On the contrary, you
should be filled with sadness, and
the man who has done such a thing
should be expelled from your fellowship.
3
4 And even though I am far
away from you in body, still I am
there with you in spirit; and as
though I were there with you, I have
in the name of our Lord Jesus already
passed judgment on the man
who has done this terrible thing. As
you meet together, and I meet with
you in my spirit, by the power of our
Lord Jesus present with us,
5 you are
to hand this man over to Satan for
his body to be destroyed, so that his
spirit may be saved in the Day of the
Lord.
6 It is not right for you to be
proud! You know the saying, “A little
bit of yeast makes the whole
batch of dough rise.” note
7 You must remove
the old yeast of sin so that you
will be entirely pure. Then you will
be like a new batch of dough without
any yeast, as indeed I know you
actually are. For our Passover Festival
is ready, now that Christ, our
Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. note
8 Let us celebrate our Passover, then,
not with bread having the old yeast
of sin and wickedness, but with the
bread that has no yeast, the bread of
purity and truth. note
9 In the letter that I wrote you I
told you not to associate with immoral
people.
10 Now I did not mean
pagans who are immoral or greedy
or are thieves, or who worship idols.
To avoid them you would have to
get out of the world completely.
11 What I meant was that you should
not associate with a person who
calls himself a brother but is immoral
or greedy or worships idols or
is a slanderer or a drunkard or a
thief. Don't even sit down to eat
with such a person.
12
13 After all, it is none of my business
to judge outsiders. God will
judge them. But should you not
-- --
judge the members of your own fellowship?
As the scripture says, “Remove
the evil man from your
group.” note
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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