New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)

1 Corinthians

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The First to the Corinthians, 5

1 Actually fornication*1 is reported among YOU, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, that a wife a certain [man] has of [his] father.*2

  1. “Fornication.” Gr., por·neiʹa; Lat., for·ni·caʹti·o. See Nu 14:33 ftn, “Fornication”; App 5A.

  2. Or, “that a certain [man] has [his] father’s wife.”

2 And are YOU puffed up, and did YOU not rather mourn, in order that the man that committed this deed should be taken away from YOUR midst?

3 I for one, although absent in body but present in spirit, have certainly judged already, as if I were present, the man who has worked in such a way as this,

4 that in the name of our Lord Jesus, when YOU are gathered together, also my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5 YOU hand such a man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

6 YOUR [cause for] boasting is not fine. Do YOU not know that a little leaven ferments the whole lump?

7 Clear away the old leaven, that YOU may be a new lump, according as YOU are free from ferment. For, indeed, Christ our passover has been sacrificed.

8 Consequently let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with leaven of badness and wickedness, but with unfermented cakes of sincerity and truth.

9 In my letter I wrote YOU to quit mixing in company with fornicators,

10 not [meaning] entirely with the fornicators of this world or the greedy persons and extortioners or idolaters. Otherwise, YOU would actually have to get out of the world.

11 But now I am writing YOU to quit mixing in company with*1 anyone called a brother that is a fornicator or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man.

  1. Lit., “not to be mixing selves up with.” Gr., me sy·na·na·miʹgny·sthai; Lat., non com·miʹsce·ri.

12 For what do I have to do with judging those outside? Do YOU not judge those inside,

13 while God judges those outside? “Remove the wicked [man] from among yourselves.”