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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Corinthians 5 NKJV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_corinthians/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_corinthians/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NKJV</a> > 1 Corinthians 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/4.htm" title="1 Corinthians 4">◄</a> 1 Corinthians 5 <a href="../1_corinthians/6.htm" title="1 Corinthians 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/1_corinthians/5.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Immorality Defiles the Church</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text 1Cor-5-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>It is actually reported <i>that there is</i> sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And you are <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>Jesus.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Your glorying <i>is</i> not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>for us. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened <i>bread</i> of sincerity and truth.</span></p> <h3> Immorality Must Be Judged</span></h3><p><span class="text 1Cor-5-9"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I wrote to you in my epistle not to <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>keep company with sexually immoral people. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Yet <i>I</i> certainly <i>did</i> not <i>mean</i> with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For what <i>have</i> I <i>to do</i> with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But those who are outside God judges. Therefore <span class="oblique">“put away from yourselves the evil person.”</span></span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-28456a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 5:1">1 Corinthians 5:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits <i>named</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28457b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 5:2">1 Corinthians 5:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>arrogant</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28460c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 5:5">1 Corinthians 5:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits <i>Jesus</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28462d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 5:7">1 Corinthians 5:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>clean out</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28462e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 5:7">1 Corinthians 5:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits <i>for us</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28464f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 5:9">1 Corinthians 5:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>associate</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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