loving and tender spirit?
005:001 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you,
and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has
his father's wife!
005:002 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man
who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!
005:003 I for my part, present with you in spirit although absent
in body, have already, as though I were present, judged him
who has so acted.
005:004 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are all assembled and my
spirit is with you, together with the power of our Lord Jesus,
005:005 I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction
of his body, that his spirit may be saved on the day of
the Lord Jesus.
005:006 It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting.
Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole
of the dough?
005:007 Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind;
for in fact you *are* free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb
has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ.
005:008 Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with
the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free
from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth.
005:009 I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to
associate with fornicators;
005:010 not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from
such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious
and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols.
For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out
of the world altogether.