| 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. | 1 It is absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife. |
| 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. | 2 And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done 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. | 3 I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, |
| 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, | 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus; |
| 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. | 5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 6 Your self-satisfaction is il founded. Do you not realise that only a little yeast leavens the whole batch ofdough? | 6 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ? |
| 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; | 7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. |
| 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. | 8 Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. |
| 9 In my letter, I wrote to you that you should have nothing to do with people living immoral lives. | 9 I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. |
| 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. | 10 I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols; otherwise you must needs go out of this world. |
| 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. | 11 But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat. |
| 12 It is no concern of mine to judge outsiders. It is for you to judge those who are inside, is it not? | 12 For what have I to do to judge them that are without ? Do not you judge them that are within ? |
| 13 But outsiders are for God to judge. You must banish this evil-doer from among you. | 13 For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves. |