Paul is shocked that the church tolerates a man living with his father's wife and tells them to remove him. He explains that he means believers who persist in sin, not the people of the world.
1 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 .
2 And ye are puffed up , and have not rather mourned , that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you .
3 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 ,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , when ye are gathered together , and my spirit , with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ ,
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh , that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus .
6 Your glorying is not good . Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven , that ye may be a new lump , as ye are unleavened . For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us :
8 Therefore let us keep the feast , not with old leaven , neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness ; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth .
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators :
10 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 .
11 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 an one no not to eat .
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without ? do not ye judge them that are within ?
13 But them that are without God judgeth . Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person .