# 1 Corinthians 5 (New King James Version)
Immorality Defiles the Church

##### Chapter 5
###### 1 It is actually reported _that there is_ sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!  
###### 2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.  
###### 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.  
###### 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,  
###### 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

###### 6 Your glorying _is_ not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?  
###### 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.  
###### 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened _bread_ of sincerity and truth.Immorality Must Be Judged

###### 9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.  
###### 10 Yet _I_ certainly _did_ not _mean_ with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.  
###### 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--not even to eat with such a person.

###### 12 For what _have_ I _to do_ with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?  
###### 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."