The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to theCorinthians
Corinthians 5
Judgment of Immorality | |
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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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