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1 Corinthians 5 :: New International Version (NIV)

Dealing With a Case of Incest

1Co 5:1

1Co 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.

1Co 5:2

1Co 5:2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this?

1Co 5:3

1Co 5:3For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this.

1Co 5:4

1Co 5:4So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,

1Co 5:5

1Co 5:5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,[fn][fn] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

1Co 5:6

1Co 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

1Co 5:7

1Co 5:7Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

1Co 5:8

1Co 5:8Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1Co 5:9

1Co 5:9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—

1Co 5:10

1Co 5:10not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

1Co 5:11

1Co 5:11But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[fn] but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

1Co 5:12

1Co 5:12What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

1Co 5:13

1Co 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”[fn]
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NIV Footnotes
In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
Or of his body
The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 8:11, 13.
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