1 Corinthians 5:1-12 (NIV) (2024)

Dealing With a Case of Incest

5It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.^{(A) 2}And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning^(B) and have put out of your fellowship^(C) the man who has been doing this? ³For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit.^(D) As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus^(E) on the one who has been doing this. ⁴So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, ⁵hand this man over^(F) to Satan^(G) for the destruction of the flesh,^[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.^(H)

⁶Your boasting is not good.^(I) Don’t you know that a little yeast^(J) leavens the whole batch of dough?^{(K) 7}Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.^{(L) 8}Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread^(M) of sincerity and truth.

⁹I wrote to you in my letter not to associate^(N) with sexually immoral people— ¹⁰not at all meaning the people of this world^(O) who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. ¹¹But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister^[c](P) but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater^(Q) or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.^(R)

¹²What business is it of mine to judge those outside^(S) the church? Are you not to judge those inside?^(T)

Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 5:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
2. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or of his body
3. 1 Corinthians 5:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 8:11, 13.

Cross references

1. 1 Corinthians 5:1 : Lev 18:8; Dt 22:30; 27:20
2. 1 Corinthians 5:2 : 2Co 7:7-11
3. 1 Corinthians 5:2 : ver 13
4. 1 Corinthians 5:3 : Col 2:5; 1Th 2:17
5. 1 Corinthians 5:3 : 2Th 3:6
6. 1 Corinthians 5:5 : 1Ti 1:20
7. 1 Corinthians 5:5 : S Mt 4:10
8. 1 Corinthians 5:5 : S 1Co 1:8
9. 1 Corinthians 5:6 : Jas 4:16
10. 1 Corinthians 5:6 : Mt 16:6, 12
11. 1 Corinthians 5:6 : Gal 5:9
12. 1 Corinthians 5:7 : Ex 12:3-6, 21; Mk 14:12; 1Pe 1:19
13. 1 Corinthians 5:8 : Ex 12:14, 15; Dt 16:3
14. 1 Corinthians 5:9 : Eph 5:11; 2Th 3:6, 14
15. 1 Corinthians 5:10 : 1Co 10:27
16. 1 Corinthians 5:11 : S Ro 7:1
17. 1 Corinthians 5:11 : 1Co 10:7, 14
18. 1 Corinthians 5:11 : S Ro 16:17
19. 1 Corinthians 5:12 : S Mk 4:11
20. 1 Corinthians 5:12 : ver 3-5; 1Co 6:1-4

Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 5:2 Or have you...?
2. 1 Corinthians 5:2 Lit puffed up
3. 1 Corinthians 5:2 Or have you...?
4. 1 Corinthians 5:4 Lit my spirit, with the power
5. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Or that you are to turn
6. 1 Corinthians 5:5 Lit flesh
7. 1 Corinthians 5:5 One early ms Lord Jesus
8. 1 Corinthians 5:6 I.e., fermented dough
9. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit now
10. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Or have written
11. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit together if anyone called a brother is

Cross references

1. 1 Corinthians 5:1 : Lev 18:8; Deut 22:30; 27:20
2. 1 Corinthians 5:2 : 1 Cor 4:6
3. 1 Corinthians 5:2 : 2 Cor 7:7-10
4. 1 Corinthians 5:2 : 1 Cor 5:13
5. 1 Corinthians 5:3 : Col 2:5; 1 Thess 2:17
6. 1 Corinthians 5:4 : 2 Thess 3:6
7. 1 Corinthians 5:4 : John 20:23; 2 Cor 2:10; 13:3, 10
8. 1 Corinthians 5:5 : Prov 23:14; Luke 22:31; 1 Tim 1:20
9. 1 Corinthians 5:5 : Matt 4:10
10. 1 Corinthians 5:5 : 1 Cor 1:8
11. 1 Corinthians 5:6 : 1 Cor 5:2; James 4:16
12. 1 Corinthians 5:6 : Rom 6:16
13. 1 Corinthians 5:6 : Hos 7:4; Matt 16:6, 12; Gal 5:9
14. 1 Corinthians 5:7 : Mark 14:12; 1 Pet 1:19
15. 1 Corinthians 5:8 : Ex 12:19; 13:7; Deut 16:3
16. 1 Corinthians 5:9 : 2 Cor 6:14; Eph 5:11; 2 Thess 3:6
17. 1 Corinthians 5:10 : 1 Cor 10:27
18. 1 Corinthians 5:11 : Acts 1:15; 2 Thess 3:6
19. 1 Corinthians 5:11 : 1 Cor 10:7, 14, 20f
20. 1 Corinthians 5:12 : Mark 4:11
21. 1 Corinthians 5:12 : 1 Cor 5:3-5; 6:1-4