¹ It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

² And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he that committed this deed might be separated from among you.

³ For I, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought this deed,

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

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

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

⁷ Cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ.

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

⁹ I wrote to you in that letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

¹⁰ certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must go out of the world.

¹¹ But this is what I wrote you, not to keep company with any one called a brother, if he be a fornicator, 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 have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?

¹³ But those who are without, God will judge. Do ye put away that bad man from among yourselves.