1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for ^wa man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are ^xarrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? ^yLet him who has done this be removed from among you.

3 For though ^zabsent 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 ^aassembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to ^bdeliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.¹

6 ^cYour boasting is not good. Do you not know that ^da 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, ^eour Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore ^fcelebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, ^gthe leaven of malice and evil, 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 sexually immoral ^hof this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to ⁱgo out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of ^jsexual 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 judging outsiders? ^kIs it not those inside the church² whom you are to judge? 13 God judges³ those outside. ^l“Purge the evil person from among you.”