14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I admonish you. 15For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel. 16I beseech you therefore, be followers of me[16].
17For this cause I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
18Now some were puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. 20For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 21What will ye? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of meekness?
V. It is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from among you. 3For I verily, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, concerning him who has so done this; 4in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For our passover, Christ, was sacrificed for us; 8therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators; 10yet not, altogether, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters; for then ye must needs go out of the world. 11But as it is, I wrote to you not to keep company, if any one called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.
12For what have I to do with judging those also who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within? 13But those who are without God judges. Therefore put away that wicked man from among yourselves.
VI. Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more the things of this life? 4If then ye have judgments about things of this life, set those to judge who are of no esteem in the church.
5I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one that shall be able to judge between his brethren; 6but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? 7Now therefore, it is altogether a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. 9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything. 13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 14And God both raised the Lord, and will also raise up us by his power.