1 Corinthians 5:4-8

4 in the name of the Lord Jesus. You must call a meeting of the church. I will be present with you in spirit, and so will the power of our Lord Jesus.
5 Then you must throw this man out and hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns.
6 Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough?
7 Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.
8 So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity and truth.

Footnotes 7

  • [a]. Or In the name of the Lord Jesus, you must call a meeting of the church.
  • [b]. Or so that his body will be destroyed; Greek reads for the destruction of the flesh.
  • [c]. Greek and the spirit.
  • [d]. Other manuscripts read the Lord Jesus; still others read our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • [e]. Greek has been sacrificed.
  • [f]. Greek not with old leaven.
  • [g]. Greek but with unleavened [bread].
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