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The First Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians
Chapter 5
He excommunicates the incestuous adulterer and admonishes them to purge out the old leaven.
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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. |
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And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this thing. |
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I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, |
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In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus: |
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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. |
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Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump? |
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Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. |
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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. |
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I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators. |
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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. |
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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. |
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For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within? |
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For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves. |
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