Sexual Immorality Rebuked

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has ^(A)his father’s wife. ^2 [a]You ^(B)have become ^[b]arrogant and ^[c]have not ^(C)mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be ^(D)removed from your midst.

³ For I, on my part, though ^(E)absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present. ^4 (F)In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and ^[d]I with you in spirit, ^(G)with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ I have decided ^[e]to ^(H)turn such a person over to ^(I)Satan for the destruction of his ^[f]body, so that his spirit may be saved on ^(J)the day of the ^[g]Lord.

^6 (K)Your boasting is not good. ^(L)Do you not know that ^(M)a little ^[h]leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? ⁷ Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our ^(N)Passover also has been sacrificed. ⁸ Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, ^(O)not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter ^(P)not to associate with sexually immoral people; ¹⁰ I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with ^(Q)idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. ¹¹ But ^[i]actually, I ^[j]wrote to you not to associate ^[k]with any so-called ^(R)brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or ^(S)an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person. ¹² For what business of mine is it to judge ^(T)outsiders? ^(U)Do you not judge those who are within the church? ¹³ But those who are outside, God ^[l]judges. ^(V)Remove the evil person from among yourselves.

Lawsuits Discouraged

6 Does any one of you, when he has a ^[m]case against ^[n]his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and ^(W)not before the ^[o]saints? ² Or ^(X)do you not know that ^(Y)the ^[p]saints will judge ^(Z)the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest ^[q]law courts? ^3 (AA)Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life? ⁴ So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, ^[r]do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church? ^5 (AB)I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you anyone wise who will be able to decide between his ^(AC)brothers and sisters, ⁶ but brother goes to law with brother, and that before ^(AD)unbelievers?

⁷ Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. ^(AE)Why not rather suffer the wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? ⁸ On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your ^(AF)brothers and sisters!

⁹ Or ^(AG)do you not know that the unrighteous will not ^(AH)inherit the kingdom of God? ^(AI)Do not be deceived; ^(AJ)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor ^[s]homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor those habitually drunk, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will ^(AK)inherit the kingdom of God. ^11 (AL)Such were some of you; but you were ^(AM)washed, but you were ^(AN)sanctified, but you were ^(AO)justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and ^[t]in the Spirit of our God.

The Body Is the Lord’s

^12 (AP)All things are permitted for me, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. ^13 (AQ)Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, however God will ^(AR)do away with both ^[u]of them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but ^(AS)for the Lord, and ^(AT)the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ Now God has not only ^(AU)raised the Lord, but ^(AV)will also raise us up through His power. ^15 (AW)Do you not know that ^(AX)your bodies are parts of Christ? Shall I then take away the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? ^[v](AY)Far from it! ¹⁶ Or ^(AZ)do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “^(BA)The two shall become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But the one who joins himself to the Lord is ^(BB)one spirit with Him. ^18 (BC)Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the ^[w]sexually immoral person sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or ^(BD)do you not know that ^(BE)your body is a ^[x]temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from ^[y]God, and that ^(BF)you are not your own? ²⁰ For ^(BG)you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in ^(BH)your body.