8 Therefore, let
us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and
malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of purity
(nobility, honor) and sincerity
and [unadulterated] truth.
9
I wrote you in my [previous] letter not to associate [closely and
habitually] with unchaste (impure) people –
10
Not [meaning of course that you must] altogether shun the immoral
people of this world, or the greedy graspers and cheats and
thieves or idolaters, since otherwise you would need to get out of
the world and
human society altogether!
11
But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name
of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or
greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that
usurps the place of God], or is a person with t foul tongue [railing,
abusing, reviling, slandering] or is a drunkard or swindler or
a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person.
12
What [business] of mine is it and
what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not those inside [the
church] upon whom you are to pass disciplinary judgement [passing
censuring sentence on them as facts require]?
13
God alone sits in judgement on those who are outside. Drive out that
wicked one from among you [expel him from your church].
