1It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality 1Th 4:3 among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated Other mss read named among the Gentiles Gl 1:16 — a man is living with his father’s wife. Lv 18:8; Dt 22:30; 27:20

2And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief Lk 6:25 so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation.

3For though I am absent in body but present in spirit, Col 2:5; 1Th 2:17 I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present.

4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, 1Jn 5:16 so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord. Mt 25:13; Ac 2:20; Php 1:6

6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast Lk 13:21; Gl 5:9 permeates the whole batch of dough? Lk 13:21

7Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passover Ex 12 has been sacrificed. Other mss add for us

8Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil Mk 7:22; Rm 1:29 but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9I wrote to you in a letter not to associate 2Th 3:14 with sexually immoral people. 1Co 6:9; Eph 5:5; 1Tm 1:10; Heb 12:16; 13:4; Rv 21:8; 22:15

10I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy Eph 5:5 and swindlers Lk 18:11 or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world. Jn 17:6

11But now I am writing Or now I wrote you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer Lit anyone named a brother 2Th 3:6 who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard 1Co 6:10 or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

12For what business is it of mine to judge Lk 6:37 outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside?

13But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves. Dt 17:7 Dt 17:7