1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you , and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles , that one of you hath his father ’ s wife . 2And ye are puffed up , and did not rather mourn , that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you .
The Call for Discipline
3For I verily , being absent in body but present in spirit , have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing , 4in the name of our Lord Jesus , ye being gathered together , and my spirit , with the power of our Lord Jesus , 5to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh , that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus .
The Importance of Purity in the Church
6Your glorying is not good . Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ? 7Purge out the old leaven , that ye may be a new lump , even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed , even Christ : 8wherefore let us keep the feast , not with old leaven , neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness , but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Judging Those Inside the Church
9I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators ; 10not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world , or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters ; for then must ye needs go out of the world : 11but as it is , I wrote unto you not to keep company , if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator , or covetous , or an idolater , or a reviler , or a drunkard , or an extortioner; with such a one no , not to eat . 12For what have I to do with judging them that are without ? Do not ye judge them that are within ? 13But them that are without God judgeth . Put away the wicked man from among yourselves .