{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T05:50:06.817Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I wrote to you in an letter not to company with fornicators:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortionists, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortionist; with such an one no not to eat."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not you judge them that are within?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But them that are without God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 5 (AKJV)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 5](https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/5 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}