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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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不容忍淫乱的事

¹我确实听说在你们中间有淫乱的事；这种淫乱连外邦人中也没有，就是有人和他的继母同居。 ²你们还自高自大！你们不是该觉得痛心，把做这事的人从你们中间赶出去吗？ ^3-4我人虽然不在你们那里，心却在你们那里，好像亲自与你们同在。我奉我们主耶稣⚓的名，已经判断了做这事的人。你们聚会的时候，我的心和你们同在。你们藉着我们主耶稣的权能， ⁵要把这样的人交给撒但，使他的肉体败坏，好让他的灵魂在主的日子可以得救。
⁶你们这样自夸是不好的。你们不知道一点面酵能使全团发起来吗？ ⁷既然你们是无酵的面，要把旧酵除净，好使你们成为新团；因为我们逾越节的羔羊—基督已经被杀献为祭牲了。 ⁸所以，我们来守这节，不可用旧酵，就是不可用恶毒、邪恶的酵，只用纯洁真实的无酵饼。
⁹我先前写信告诉过你们，不可与淫乱的人交往。 ¹⁰此话不是泛指这世上所有行淫乱的，或贪婪的，勒索的，或拜偶像的；若是这样，你们非离开这世界不可。 ¹¹但现在，我写信告诉你们，若有称为弟兄的人却仍犯淫乱，或贪婪，或拜偶像，或辱骂，或醉酒，或勒索，这样的人不可跟他交往，就是跟他吃饭都不可以。 ¹²因为审判教外的人与我何干？教内的人岂不是你们要审判吗？ ¹³至于外人有上帝审判他们。如经上说：“要从你们中间把那邪恶的人赶出去。”