Immoral Behavior and Church Discipline

¹ It is reported everywhere that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which does not even exist among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of his father.

² And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?

³ For although I¹ am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already passed judgment on the one who has done this in this way, as if I² were present.

1. *Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“am absent”) which is understood as concessive
2. *Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were present”) which is understood as conditional

⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus, when¹ you are assembled, and my spirit, together with the power of our Lord Jesus,

1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“are assembled”)

⁵ I have decided¹ to hand over such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

1. *The words “I have decided” are implied from the statement “I have already passed judgment” in v. 3

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough?

⁷ Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

⁸ So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

¹⁰ By no means did I mean the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.

¹¹ But now I have written to you not to associate with any so-called brother, if he is a sexually immoral person or a greedy person or an idolater or an abusive person or a drunkard or a swindler—with such a person not even to eat.

¹² For what is it to me to judge those outside? Should you not judge those inside?

¹³ But those outside God will judge. Remove the evil person ⌞from among yourselves⌟¹.

1. Literally “from you of them”