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1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
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1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.
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2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
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2 And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?
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3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
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3 Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
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4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
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4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,
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5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
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5 hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.
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6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
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6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?
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7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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7 Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
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9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people--
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9 I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people--
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