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Immorality Defiles the Church

¹It 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. ⁴In 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? ⁷Therefore 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. ⁸Therefore ⚓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

⁹I wrote to you in my epistle ⚓not to keep company with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰Yet 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. ¹¹But 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.
¹²For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? ¹³But those who are outside God judges. Therefore ⚓“put away from yourselves the evil person.”

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不容忍淫亂的事

¹我確實聽說在你們中間有淫亂的事；這種淫亂連外邦人中也沒有，就是有人和他的繼母同居。 ²你們還自高自大！你們不是該覺得痛心，把做這事的人從你們中間趕出去嗎？ ^3-4我人雖然不在你們那裏，心卻在你們那裏，好像親自與你們同在。我奉我們主耶穌⚓的名，已經判斷了做這事的人。你們聚會的時候，我的心和你們同在。你們藉着我們主耶穌的權能， ⁵要把這樣的人交給撒但，使他的肉體敗壞，好讓他的靈魂在主的日子可以得救。
⁶你們這樣自誇是不好的。你們不知道一點麵酵能使全團發起來嗎？ ⁷既然你們是無酵的麵，要把舊酵除淨，好使你們成為新團；因為我們逾越節的羔羊－基督已經被殺獻為祭牲了。 ⁸所以，我們來守這節，不可用舊酵，就是不可用惡毒、邪惡的酵，只用純潔真實的無酵餅。
⁹我先前寫信告訴過你們，不可與淫亂的人交往。 ¹⁰此話不是泛指這世上所有行淫亂的，或貪婪的，勒索的，或拜偶像的；若是這樣，你們非離開這世界不可。 ¹¹但現在，我寫信告訴你們，若有稱為弟兄的人卻仍犯淫亂，或貪婪，或拜偶像，或辱罵，或醉酒，或勒索，這樣的人不可跟他交往，就是跟他吃飯都不可以。 ¹²因為審判教外的人與我何干？教內的人豈不是你們要審判嗎？ ¹³至於外人有上帝審判他們。如經上說：「要從你們中間把那邪惡的人趕出去。」