¹ It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles―that a certain one has his father’s wife.

² And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

³ For I, indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing;

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit have come together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵ that we deliver such a one over to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

⁷ Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are without leaven; for Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed for us.

⁸ Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

⁹ I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;

¹⁰ yet without the lest allusion to the lewd, or the covetous, or the extortioners, or the idolaters of this world; for then you must go out of the world;

¹¹ but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

¹² For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within?

¹³ But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.