1Corinthians:5-6

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* It is actually reported that there is fornication among you , and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles –a man has his father 's wife ! * And you , instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame , are filled with self-complacency ! * I for my part , present with you in spirit although absent in body , have already , as though I were present , judged him who has so acted . * In the name of our Lord Jesus , when you are all assembled and my spirit is with you , together with the power of our Lord Jesus , * I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his body , that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus . * It is no good thing –this which you make the ground of your boasting . Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough ? * Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind ; for in fact you free from corruption . For our Passover Lamb has already been offered in sacrifice –even Christ . * Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with the yeast of what is evil and mischievous , but with bread free from yeast –the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth . * I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators ; * not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such as they , any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain , or from worshippers of idols . For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out of the world altogether . * But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of »brother ,« if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain . With such a man you ought not even to eat . * For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders ? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church * while you leave to God 's judgement those who are outside ? Remove the wicked man from among you . * If one of you has a grievance against an opponent , does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God 's people ? * Do you not know that God 's people will sit in judgement upon the world ? And if you are the court before which the world is to be judged , are you unfit to deal with these petty matters ? * Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels –to say nothing of things belonging to this life ? * If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need to be decided , is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church –is it whom you make your judges ? * I say this to put you to shame . Has it come to this , that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother , * but brother goes to law with brother , and that before unbelievers ? * To say no more , then , it is altogether a defect in you that you have law-suits with one another . Why not rather endure injustice ? Why not rather submit to being defrauded ? * On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud , and upon brethren too . * Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God 's Kingdom ? Cherish no delusion here . Neither fornicators , nor idolaters , nor adulterers , nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime , * nor theives , nor avaricious people , nor any who are addicted to hard drinking , to abusive language or to greed of gain , will inherit God 's Kingdom . * And all this describes what some of you were . But now you have had every stain washed off : now you have been set apart as holy : now you have been pronounced free from guilt ; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God . * Everything is allowable to me , but not everything is profitable . Everything is allowable to me , but to nothing will I become a slave . * Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach , and the stomach is meant for food , and God will cause both of them to perish . Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication , but for the Master 's service , and the Master exists for the body ; * and as God by His power raised the Master to life , so He will also raise us up . * Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute ? No , indeed . * Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body ? For God says , * But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit . * Flee from fornication . Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body ; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body . * Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you –the Spirit whom you have from God ? * And you are not your own , for you have been redeemed at infinite cost . Therefore glorify God in your bodies . * I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter . It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage .

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