Modern Literal Version
[1 Corinthians 5]


     5:1 Fornication is heard literally to be among you* (and such fornication which is not even named among the Gentiles), that someone has his father's wife. 5:2 And you* are arrogant and did not rather mourn, that* he who had done this work might be taken away out of your* midst. 5:3 For*indeed, as being absent in body, but being present in spirit, I have already judged him thus who has worked this, (as though I were present), 5:4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you*and my spirit are gathered together with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5:5 to give such a one to Satan *for the utter-ruin of the flesh, that* the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


    5:6 Your* boasting is not good. Do you* not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch? 5:7Clean out the old leaven, that* you* may be a new batch, just-as you* are unleavened. For* Christ our Passover has also been sacrificed on our behalf. 5:8 So-then we should celebrate the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


     5:9 I have written to you* in my letter not to socialize with fornicators; 5:10 and certainly notmeaning with the fornicators of this world or with the greedy and extortioners or with idolaters; otherwise, you* are consequently* obligated to go forth out of the world. 5:11 But now, I have written to you* not to socialize with anyone who is named a brother, if he is either a fornicator or greedy or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner; do not even eat with such a person. 5:12 For* what do I even have to do with judging those who are outside? Do you* not judge those who are inside? 5:13 But God will judge those who are outside and take away the evil man from among yourselves.



Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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