It is (1) reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. (1) They are greatly to be reprehended who by allowing wickedness, set forth the Church of God to be mocked and scorned by i... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. (2) There are none more proud than they that least know themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) For I verily, as absent in body, but present in (a) spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, [concerning] him that hath so done this deed, (3) Excommunication ought not to be committed to one man's power, but must be done by the authority of the whole congregation, after the matte... [ Continue Reading ]
In the (b) name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, (4) with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (b) Calling upon Christ's name. (4) There is no doubt that the judgment is ratified in heaven, in which Christ himself sits as Judge.... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) To (c) deliver such an one unto Satan for the (6) destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (5) The one who is excommunicated is delivered to the power of Satan, in that he is cast out of the house of God. (c) What it is to be delivered to Satan the L... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) Your glorying (d) [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (7) Another goal of excommunication is that others are not infected, and therefore it must of necessity be retained in the Church, so that one is not infected by the other. (d) Is nothing and not ground... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new (e) lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our (f) passover is sacrificed for us: (8) By alluding to the ceremony of the passover, he exhorts them to cast out that unclean person from among them. In times past, he says, it was not la... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore let us keep the (g) feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth. (g) Let us lead our whole life as it were a continual feast, honestly and uprightly.... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: (9) Now he speaks more generally: and that which he spoke before of the incestuous person he shows that it pertains to others, who are known to be wicked and those who through their wicked life are a slander to the Church, who ough... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet not (h) altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. (h) If you should utterly abstain from such men's company, you should go out of the world. Therefore I speak of those who are in the very... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? (10) Those who are false brethren ought to be cast out of the congregation. As for those who are outside of it, they must be left to the judgment of God.... [ Continue Reading ]