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The First Letter to the Corinthians 5

5 I have learned that you are in fact allowing people from your group to have improper sex. Even those who do not worship God do not allow some of the things that you allow. The worst thing that I have learned is that a man from your group is having sex with his stepmother. 2 Despite this, you still say great things about yourselves instead of lamenting that sin. You should have lamented with the goal of expelling the man who committed this sexual sin. 3 You should expel him because I have already declared the man who did this evil thing to be guilty. Although I am not with you physically, I think about you and care about you. Therefore, when I declare this man to be guilty, it is as valid as if I were with you. 4 When you gather together, and I am thinking of you, we represent our Lord Jesus the Messiah. When you gather in this way, you should punish this man as our Lord Jesus authorizes you to do. 5 You should expel this man so that Satan rules over him. That will destroy his sinful parts, and then God will save him when the Lord returns.

6 Saying great things about yourselves is not the right thing to do. Surely you realize that one person doing evil things is like fermented dough. Even a little fermented dough makes a whole lump of dough fermented, and even one person doing evil things makes the whole church guilty. 7 Just as Jews remove the yeast from their houses during the Passover festival, so you should remove anyone who does evil things from your group. Then, you will be free of sin, just like fresh, unleavened dough is free of yeast. In fact, you live in a time that is like the festival of Passover. This is because the Messiah has died for you, just like the lamb that Jews sacrifice during the Passover festival represents how God delivered them. 8 Since the Messiah has died for us, let us act as if we were participating in the festival of Passover and remove the old leaven. We should get rid of the leaven, which stands for doing what is evil and wicked. Instead, we should eat unfermented bread, which stands for doing what is honest and trustworthy.

9 In the letter that I sent to you before this one, I told you not to keep company with people who act in sexually improper ways. 10 I did not mean that you should entirely disassociate with unbelieving people who act in sexually immoral ways, or with people who want more than they need or who cheat others, or with people who worship false gods. To avoid these kinds of people, you would need to get away from the entire world. That is not what I have commanded you to do. 11 Now, in this letter, I am telling you not to keep company with any person whom you call a fellow believer who is acting sinfully. This includes having improper sex, wanting more than one needs, worshiping other gods, abusing others with words, getting drunk, and cheating others. Do not have meals with a person who does any of these things. 12 I want you to act in this way only with fellow believers, because you and I do not need to decide whether someone who is not part of our group is guilty or innocent. Rather, you need to focus on deciding whether people who are part of your group are guilty or innocent. 13 Do not worry about people who are not part of your group because God is the one who decides whether they are guilty or innocent. You should focus on people who are part of your group because the scripture says,

“You must get rid of any evil person who is part of your group!”

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