1 Corinthians 5
Paul confronts a case of sexual immorality in the church that even pagans would not tolerate. He instructs the church to remove the unrepentant person for the sake of the community's purity. A little leaven leavens the whole lump, Christ is our Passover lamb.
1 CorinthiansChapter 5 of 1613 versesBerean Standard Bible
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It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Passover lamb — Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed
“Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.”
Read Exodus 12:3›Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
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1 Corinthians 5:51 Timothy 1:20
“Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.”
“but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.”
1 Corinthians 5:7Ephesians 4:22
“to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;”
1 Corinthians 5:11Romans 16:17
“Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.”
1 Corinthians 5:112 Thessalonians 3:6
“Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.”
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