It is actually reported everywhere that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is condemned even among the unbelieving Gentiles: that someone 1has an intimate relationship with ahis father’s wife. Deut 22:30; 27:20Some maintain that the man had married his stepmother. The marriage, if it occurred, was illegal and invalid by both Jewish and Roman law.Lev 18:8; Deut 22:30; 27:20 2 And you aare proud and arrogant! You should have bmourned in shame so that the man who has done this disgraceful thing would be cremoved from your fellowship!1 Cor 4:62 Cor 7:7-101 Cor 5:13
3 For I, though aabsent from you in body but present in spirit, have already passed judgment on him who has committed this act, as if I were present.Col 2:5; 1 Thess 2:17 4 aIn the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I am with you in spirit, bwith the power of our Lord Jesus,2 Thess 3:6John 20:23; 2 Cor 2:10; 13:3, 10 5 you are to 1ahand over this man to bSatan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved in cthe day of the Lord Jesus.Probably a call for the man to be excommunicated and removed from the safety and blessing of the church.Prov 23:14; Luke 22:31; 1 Tim 1:20Matt 4:101 Cor 1:8
6 aYour boasting over the supposed spirituality of your church is not good indeed, it is vulgar and inappropriate. 1bDo you not know that just ca little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough, just as a little sin corrupts a person or an entire church?See note 3:16.1 Cor 5:2; James 4:16Rom 6:16Hos 7:4; Matt 16:6, 12; Gal 5:9 7 1Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new batch, just as you are, still unleavened. For Christ our aPassover Lamb has been sacrificed.Paul is using the Passover celebration as an analogy. Leading up to the Passover meal was the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Ex 12:17-20), during which the Israelites were to remove all leaven from their homes to symbolize the removal of sin from their lives. Leaven (yeast) was often used as a symbol of spiritual corruption.Mark 14:12; 1 Pet 1:19 8 Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, anot with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and untainted truth. Ex 12:19; 13:7; Deut 16:3Ex 12:19; 13:7; Deut 16:3
9 I wrote you in my previous letter anot to associate with sexually immoral people—2 Cor 6:14; Eph 5:11; 2 Thess 3:6 10 not meaning the immoral people of this world, or the greedy ones and swindlers, or aidolaters, for then you would have to get out of the world and human society altogether!1 Cor 10:27 11 But actually, I have written to you not to associate with any so-called Christian abrother if he is sexually immoral or greedy, or is ban idolater devoted to anything that takes the place of God, or is a reviler who insults or slanders or otherwise verbally abuses others, or is a drunkard or a swindler—you must not so much as 1eat with such a person. 2+@Thess 3:6In ancient times eating together was an open display of friendship and acceptance of one another.Acts 1:15; 2 Thess 3:61 Cor 10:7, 14, 20f 12 For what business is it of mine to judge aoutsiders ? bDo you not judge those who are within the church to protect the church as the situation requires?Mark 4:111 Cor 5:3-5; 6:1-4 13 God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside the faith. aREMOVE THE WICKED ONE FROM AMONG YOU expel him from your church. Deut 17:7Deut 13:5; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21; 1 Cor 5:2