Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 5:1 (show verse)
There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!
1 Corinthians 5:2 (show verse)
Instead of grieving over it and taking steps for the expulsion of the man who has done this thing, is it possible that you are still puffed up?
1 Corinthians 5:3 (show verse)
For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, upon the man who has acted in this way.
1 Corinthians 5:4 (show verse)
I have decided-having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us-
1 Corinthians 5:5 (show verse)
To deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the Day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 5:6 (show verse)
Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?
1 Corinthians 5:7 (show verse)
Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough-free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our Passover Lamb is already sacrificed-Christ himself;
1 Corinthians 5:8 (show verse)
Therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:9 (show verse)
I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people- -
1 Corinthians 5:10 (show verse)
Not, of course, meaning men of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.
1 Corinthians 5:11 (show verse)
But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with any one who, although a Brother in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping-no, not even to sit at table with such people.
1 Corinthians 5:12 (show verse)
What have I to do with judging those outside the Church? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church,
1 Corinthians 5:13 (show verse)
While God judges those who are outside? 'Put away the wicked man from among you.'