How to Deal with a Believer with Immoral Behavior |
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians [in Smaller Chunks] |
It is commonly reported that there is fornication, [a.k.a. sexual immorality,] among you. Such fornication isn't [spoken about] among the Gentiles, that [anyone] should have, [a.k.a. be intimate with,] his father's wife. |
And you are puffed up, [a.k.a. proud,] & haven't mourned [instead, so] that he, [who] has done this deed, may be taken away from among you. For [truly,] [although I'm] absent in body, [a.k.a. not there,] but [I'm] present in spirit, & have already judged, about him, [who has] done this deed, as though I were [there.] |
In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you & my spirit are gathered together [through] the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver [someone] such [as this, from] [Satan's] destruction of the flesh, [so] that the spirit may be saved [on] the Day of the Lord Jesus. |
[Ephesians 4:19-24 Who [in the] past [feelings,] have given themselves over to: lasciviousness, [a.k.a. lustfulness,] & to [do] all [unclean] [works, a.k.a. deeds,] with [greed.] But you haven't learned [to do] so, [through] Christ. If [it's true] that you have heard [Christ,] & have been taught by Him, [since] the Truth is [within] Jesus, [in order] that, you put off the old man, [who] is corrupt, according to deceitful lusts, [related to the previous] conversation. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind, & that [afterward] you put on the new man, which God [has] created in righteousness & true holiness.] |
Your glorying, [a.k.a. boasting,] isn't good. [Don't] you know that a little leaven, [a.k.a. yeast,] [leavens, a.k.a. raises,] the whole lump, [a.k.a. of dough?] [Matthew 16:11-12 How is it that you don't understand that I [didn't speak] to you [about] bread, [but] that you shall beware of the leaven of the Pharisees & Sadducees? Then, they understood how [Jesus didn't urge] them [to] beware of the leaven of bread, but [to beware] of the doctrine, [a.k.a. teaching,] of the Pharisees & Sadducees.] |
Therefore, purge, [a.k.a. remove] the old leaven, [so] that you may be a new lump, [like] you are unleavened. [1 Corinthians 6:9-11 [Don't] you know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? [Don't] be deceived. Neither [be:] fornicators, [a.k.a. unfaithful;] idolaters; adulterers; effeminate; abusers of themselves with mankind; thieves; covetous, [a.k.a. greedy;] drunkards, revilers, [a.k.a. slanderers;] nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. And some of you were such: but [now] you are washed, but [now] you are sanctified, but [now] you are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, & by the Spirit of our God.] |
For even Christ is sacrificed for us, [instead of] our Passover [animal.] [Romans 3:23-25 For all have sinned, & come short of the glory of God. Being freely justified by [God's] grace through the redemption that is [through] Christ Jesus; Whom God [has put] forth to be a propitiation, [a.k.a. atonement,] through faith in [Jesus Christ's] blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission, [a.k.a. forgiveness,] of [previous] sins, through the [patience] of God.] |
Therefore, let us keep the feast, [but] not with old leaven, & neither with leaven of malice, [a.k.a. spitefulness,] & wickedness. But [instead] with the unleavened bread of sincerity & truth. |
I wrote an epistle, [a.k.a. letter,] to you, to not [keep] company with fornicators, [a.k.a. the unfaithful.] [Still] not [totally] [without] this [world's:] fornicators; covetous, [a.k.a. greedy;] extortioners, or idolaters, for then you [would need] to go out of, [a.k.a. leave] the world. |
But I have now written to you, not to keep company, if any man [who] is called a brother, [a.k.a. fellow-believer, is] a: fornicator; covetous; idolator; railer, [a.k.a. severe complainer;] drunkard; or extortioner. No, not one [should] eat with such. |
For what [right] do I have to judge them [who] are [outside] [the faith?] Don't you judge [those, who] are within, [a.k.a. inside] [the faith?] But God [judges those, who] are [outside.] Therefore, put away that wicked person from among yourselves. [Deuteronomy 19:20 And those [who] remain, shall hear, & fear, [a.k.a. be afraid,] and shall no [longer] commit such evil among you [from now on.] |