## Sexual Immorality in the Church ###### 1 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. ###### 2 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. ###### 3 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: ###### 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ###### 5 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. ###### 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ###### 7 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. ###### 8 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. ###### 9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people; ###### 10 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. ###### 11 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. ###### 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Are you not to judge those who are within _the church_? ###### 13 But those who are outside, God will judge. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.