Immorality Rebuked

(Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)

5 {It is} actually reported [that there is] sexual immorality among you, and [of a kind] that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has [his] father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief [and] have removed from your [fellowship] the [man who] did this?

3 Although I am absent [ from you ] in body, I am present [with you ] in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the [one] [who] did this, just as if I were present. 4 [When] you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus[fn] and I [am with you] in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus, 5 hand this man {over} to Satan for [the] destruction of the flesh, so that [his] spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.[fn]

6 Your boasting [is] not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch [of dough]? 7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with [the] old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with [the] unleavened [bread] of sincerity and of truth.