A Community Faces Its Responsibility

Community Discipline and the New Feast · 1 Corinthians 5

Story guide: Paul reports serious misconduct and calls the assembled church to mourn rather than boast. His direction concerns discipline within their own community and aims at eventual salvation.

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1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as is not even found among the Gentiles: a man has his father’s wife.

2And you are puffed up, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

3For I, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though present, the one who has done this thing.

4In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and my spirit is with you, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

5to hand such a man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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