¹It is heard – very much so – that there is fornication among you, and fornication of such a kind that is not even named among the Gentiles, that someone should have his father's wife. ²And you are complacent and have not rather mourned, so that he who committed this act should be removed from your company. ³Well I, being absent in the body but present in the spirit, have already reached a decision on him who actually did this, as if I were present, ⁴in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, while you are gathered together (as is my spirit) with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵to deliver a man like this to Satan, for destruction of the flesh, in order that the spirit might be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷Clear out the old leaven, in order to be a new lump, since you are unleavened. For indeed, our Passover has been sacrificed for us – Christ – ⁸so let us keep the feast, not in old leaven, nor in leaven of wickedness and evil, but in unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. ⁹I have written to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators, ¹⁰and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with the fraudsters, or the rapacious or idolaters, since then you would have to depart from the world. ¹¹And I have written to you now not to associate with anyone if he is called a brother, but who is a fornicator or a fraudster or an idolater or is abusive or drunk or rapacious, and not to eat with such a person. ¹²But what business is it of mine to also judge those outside? Is it not those inside whom you judge? ¹³But God will judge those outside. However, you shall remove the wicked person from your own group.