1 It is actually reported that there isw2 Cor. 12:21 sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans,xLev. 18:8; Deut. 22:30; 27:20 for a man has his father's wife. 2 AndySee ch. 4:6 you are arrogant! Ought youz[2 Cor. 7:7-10] not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
3 For thoughaCol. 2:5; [1 Thess. 2:17] absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembledb2 Thess. 3:6; [Matt. 16:19; 18:18; John 20:23; 2 Cor. 13:3, 10; 1 Tim. 5:20] in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you arec1 Tim. 1:20; [Job 2:6; Acts 26:18] to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, sod[Prov. 23:14] that his spirit may be savedeSee ch. 1:8 in the day of the Lord.
6 fJames 4:16; [ver. 2] Your boasting is not good. Do you not know thatgGal. 5:9; [ch. 15:33] a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival,hEx. 12:15; Deut. 16:3 not with the old leaven,i[Matt. 16:6, 12; Mark 8:15; Luke 12:1] the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letterj[2 Cor. 6:14; Eph. 5:11; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14] not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 k[ch. 10:27] not at all meaninglEph. 5:5; Col. 3:5; [ch. 6:9] the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters,m[John 17:15] since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyonen2 Thess. 3:6 who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judgingoSee Mark 4:11 outsiders?p[ch. 6:1-4] Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges1Or will judge those outside.q[Deut. 13:5; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21, 22, 24; Judg. 20:13] “Purge the evil person from among you. ”