Paul confronts sexual immorality in the Corinthian church and commands removal of the unrepentant member - the New Testament’s clearest teaching on church discipline, grounded in a striking Passover declaration: Christ has been sacrificed, so purge the old yeast and keep the feast with sincerity and truth.
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Lyrics
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality amongst you And such sexual immorality as is not even named amongst the Gentiles That one has his father’s wife You are arrogant and didn’t mourn instead That he who had done this deed might be removed from amongst you
For I most certainly as being absent in body but present in spirit Have already as though I were present judged him who has done this thing In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ When you are gathered together with my spirit With the power of our Lord Jesus Christ You are to 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
Your boasting is not good Don’t you know that a little yeast Leavens the whole lump Purge out the old yeast that you may be a new lump Even as you are unleavened For indeed Christ our Passover has been sacrificed in our place
Therefore let’s keep the feast not with old yeast Neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners Yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world
Or with the covetous and extortionists or with idolaters For then you would have to leave the world But as it is I wrote to you not to associate with anyone Who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner Or covetous or an idolater or a slanderer or a drunkard or an extortionist
Don’t even eat with such a person For what do I have to do With also judging those who are outside Don’t you judge those who are within But those who are outside God judges Put away the wicked man From amongst yourselves
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1 Corinthians 5 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.
Published 2026-05-22 · Last updated 2026-06-06
Written by Reid Wender, Editorial Director at Psalmody Press