1 Corinthians 5

New American Bible	New Jerusalem Bible
¹ It is widely reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans--a man living with his father's wife.	¹ It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, immorality of a kind that is not foundeven among gentiles: that one of you is living with his stepmother.
² And you are inflated with pride. Should you not rather have been sorrowful? The one who did this deed should be expelled from your midst.	² And you so fil ed with your own self-importance! It would have been better if you had been grievingbitterly, so that the man who has done this thing were turned out of the community.
³ I, for my part, although absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as if present, pronounced judgment on the one who has committed this deed,	³ For my part, however distant I am physical y, I am present in spirit and have already condemned theman who behaved in this way, just as though I were present in person.
⁴ in the name of (our) Lord Jesus: when you have gathered together and I am with you in spirit with the power of the Lord Jesus,	⁴ When you have gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus, with the presence of my spirit, and inthe power of our Lord Jesus,
⁵ you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.	⁵ hand such a man over to Satan, to be destroyed as far as natural life is concerned, so that on the Dayof the Lord his spirit may be saved.
⁶ Your boasting is not appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?	⁶ Your self-satisfaction is il founded. Do you not realise that only a little yeast leavens the whole batch ofdough?
⁷ Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.	⁷ Throw out the old yeast so that you can be the fresh dough, unleavened as you are. For our Passoverhas been sacrificed, that is, Christ;
⁸ Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.	⁸ let us keep the feast, then, with none of the old yeast and no leavening of evil and wickedness, but onlythe unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
⁹ I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people,	⁹ In my letter, I wrote to you that you should have nothing to do with people living immoral lives.
¹⁰ not at all referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world.	¹⁰ I was not including everybody in this present world who is sexually immoral, or everybody who isgreedy, or dishonest or worships false gods -- that would mean you would have to cut yourselves off completelyfrom the world.
¹¹ But I now write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, if he is immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a robber, not even to eat with such a person.	¹¹ In fact what I meant was that you were not to have anything to do with anyone going by the name ofbrother who is sexual y immoral, or is greedy, or worships false gods, or is a slanderer or a drunkard ordishonest; never even have a meal with anybody of that kind.
¹² For why should I be judging outsiders? Is it not your business to judge those within?	¹² It is no concern of mine to judge outsiders. It is for you to judge those who are inside, is it not?
¹³ God will judge those outside. "Purge the evil person from your midst."	¹³ But outsiders are for God to judge. You must banish this evil-doer from among you.