41 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
41 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
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## Sexual Immorality in the Church
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###### 1
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It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife.
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###### 2
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And you have become puffed up and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
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###### 3
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For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present:
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###### 4
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in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
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###### 5
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deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
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###### 6
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Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
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###### 7
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Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are _in fact_ unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, also was sacrificed.
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###### 8
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Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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###### 9
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I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people;
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###### 10
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I _did_ not at all _mean_ with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.
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###### 11
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But now I am writing to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one.
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###### 12
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For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Are you not to judge those who are within _the church_?
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###### 13
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But those who are outside, God will judge. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.
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