(Leviticus 20:10–21; Proverbs 5:1–23)
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Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations—as that one has the wife of the father!
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And you are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,
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for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so worked this thing:
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in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ—you being gathered together, also my spirit—with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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to deliver up such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus.
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Your glorying [is] not good; have you not known that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
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Cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, according as you are unleavened, for our Passover was sacrificed for us also—Christ,
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so that we may keep the celebration, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
Expel the Immoral Brother
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I wrote to you in the letter, not to keep company with whoremongers—
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and certainly not with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing you ought then to go forth out of the world—
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and now, I wrote to you not to keep company with [him], if anyone, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—do not even eat together with such a one;
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for what have I also to judge those outside? Do you not judge those within?
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And judge those without God; and put away the evil from among yourselves.
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