1 Corinthians 5
Judgment of
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It is reported commonly that there
is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much
as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. Deut. 22.30
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And ye are puffed up, and have not rather
mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from
among you.
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For I verily, as absent in body, but
present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
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in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our
Lord Jesus Christ,
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to 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.
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Your glorying is not good. Know
ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump Gal. 5.9 ?
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Purge out therefore the old leaven, that
ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our
passover Ex. 12.5 is sacrificed for us:
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therefore let us keep the feast, not with
old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but
with the unleavened bread Ex. 13.7 · Deut. 16.3 of sincerity and truth.
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I wrote unto you in an epistle not to
company with fornicators:
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yet not altogether with the fornicators
of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with
idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
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But now I have written unto you not to
keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner; with such a one, no, not to eat.
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For what have I to do to judge them also
that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
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But them that are without God judgeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked
person.
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