{"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/drb/1-corinthians/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:56:40.223Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus; "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ? "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor 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 epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols; otherwise you must needs go out of this world. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For what have I to do to judge them that are without ? Do not you judge them that are within ? "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves. "}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 5 (DRB)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 5](https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}