1 Olen kuulnud mitmelt poolt, et teie keskel on sugukõlvatust, ja veel sellist kõlvatust, mida ei esine isegi paganate seas, et keegi magab oma isa naisega. 2 Ja teie olete veel uhked! Te peaksite pigem leinama ja endi keskelt eemaldama mehe, kes seda on teinud.

3 Kuigi ma olen ihulikult eemal, olen ma vaimus kohal. Ja sel moel teie juures viibides teinud otsuse meie Issanda Jeesuse nimel selle üle, kes on seda teinud. 4 Kui te olete kokku tulnud ja mina olen teiega vaimus ja meie Issanda Jeesuse vägi on kohal, 5 andke see mees saatana kätte ihu hävitamiseks, et tema vaim võiks pääseda Issanda päeval.

6 Teie kiitlemine on kohatu! Kas te siis ei tea, et pisut juuretist paneb käärima kogu taigna? 7 Puhastage end vanast juuretisest, et te oleksite uus taigen, hapnemata, nagu te ju tegelikult oletegi. Sest ka meie paasatall Kristus on tapetud. 8 Pidutsegem siis siiruse ja tõe hapnemata leivaga, mitte aga vana leivaga, mis on hapendatud kurjuse ja tigedusega!

9 Ma kirjutasin teile oma kirjas, et te ei teeks tegemist sugukõlvatutega, 10 sugugi mitte mõeldes selle maailma kõlvatuid, ahneid ja riisujaid või ebajumalateenijaid, sest muidu tuleks teil maailmast üldse ära minna. 11 Ma tahtsin öelda, et te ei teeks tegemist ühegagi, kes nimetab end vennaks või õeks, kristlaseks, kuid on sugukõlvatu, ahne, ebajumalateenija, laimaja, joodik või riisuja. Sellisega ärge isegi koos sööge!

12 Sest kas minu asi on mõista kohut nende üle, kes on kogudusest väljas? Kas te ei peaks kohut mõistma nende üle, kes on koguduses? 13 Väljas olijate üle mõistab kohut Jumal. Heitke kurjad välja eneste keskelt!

1 It is 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. 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. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not 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. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.