The Message Bible MSG
The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 I also received a report of scandalous sex within your church family, a kind that wouldn't be tolerated even outside the church: One of your men is sleeping with his stepmother.
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omnino auditur inter vos fornicatio et talis fornicatio qualis nec inter gentes ita ut uxorem patris aliquis habeat
2 And you're so above it all that it doesn't even faze you! Shouldn't this break your hearts? Shouldn't it bring you to your knees in tears? Shouldn't this person and his conduct be confronted and dealt with?
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et vos inflati estis et non magis luctum habuistis ut tollatur de medio vestrum qui hoc opus fecit
3 I'll tell you what I would do. Even though I'm not there in person, consider me right there with you, because I can fully see what's going on. I'm telling you that this is wrong. You must not simply look the other way and hope it goes away on its own. Bring it out in the open and deal with it in the authority of Jesus our Master.
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ego quidem absens corpore praesens autem spiritu iam iudicavi ut praesens eum qui sic operatus est
4 Assemble the community - I'll be present in spirit with you and our Master Jesus will be present in power.
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in nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi congregatis vobis et meo spiritu cum virtute Domini Iesu
5 Hold this man's conduct up to public scrutiny. Let him defend it if he can! But if he can't, then out with him! It will be totally devastating to him, of course, and embarrassing to you. But better devastation and embarrassment than damnation. You want him on his feet and forgiven before the Master on the Day of Judgment.
5
tradere huiusmodi Satanae in interitum carnis ut spiritus salvus sit in die Domini Iesu
6 Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it's anything but that. Yeast, too, is a "small thing," but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast.
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non bona gloriatio vestra nescitis quia modicum fermentum totam massam corrumpit
7 So get rid of this "yeast." Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast.
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expurgate vetus fermentum ut sitis nova consparsio sicut estis azymi etenim pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus
8 So let's live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread - simple, genuine, unpretentious.
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itaque epulemur non in fermento veteri neque in fermento malitiae et nequitiae sed in azymis sinceritatis et veritatis
9 I wrote you in my earlier letter that you shouldn't make yourselves at home among the sexually promiscuous.
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scripsi vobis in epistula ne commisceamini fornicariis
10 I didn't mean that you should have nothing at all to do with outsiders of that sort. Or with crooks, whether blue- or white-collar. Or with spiritual phonies, for that matter. You'd have to leave the world entirely to do that!
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non utique fornicariis huius mundi aut avaris aut rapacibus aut idolis servientibus alioquin debueratis de hoc mundo exisse
11 But I am saying that you shouldn't act as if everything is just fine when one of your Christian companions is promiscuous or crooked, is flip with God or rude to friends, gets drunk or becomes greedy and predatory. You can't just go along with this, treating it as acceptable behavior.
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nunc autem scripsi vobis non commisceri si is qui frater nominatur est fornicator aut avarus aut idolis serviens aut maledicus aut ebriosus aut rapax cum eiusmodi nec cibum sumere
12 I'm not responsible for what the outsiders do, but don't we have some responsibility for those within our community of believers?
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quid enim mihi de his qui foris sunt iudicare nonne de his qui intus sunt vos iudicatis
13 God decides on the outsiders, but we need to decide when our brothers and sisters are out of line and, if necessary, clean house.
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nam eos qui foris sunt Deus iudicabit auferte malum ex vobis ipsis
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