2 KORINTIËRS 5
Verregaande onsedelikheid en oproep om tug toe te pas
1 'n Mens hoor werklik van onsedelikheid onder julle, en dan nogal onsedelikheid van so 'n aard as wat selfs onder die heidene nie voorkom nie, naamlik dat 'n man en sy stiefma as man en vrou saamleef. 2 En dan verbeel julle julle nog julle is beter as ander. Moes julle nie liewer daaroor getreur het nie? So sou julle die man wat so iets gedoen het, uit julle kring verwyder het. 3-4 Wat my betref, al was ek nie persoonlik by julle nie, was ek tog in die gees daar. Asof ek werklik daar was, het ek oor die man wat so iets gedoen het, reeds in die Naam van ons Here Jesus tot 'n besluit gekom. Julle daar, en ek in die gees teenwoordig, saam met die krag van ons Here Jesus, het vergader om hierdie man aan die Satan oor te gee. 5 So sou sy sondige aard vernietig word, sodat sy gees gered kan word op die dag wanneer die Here kom.
6 Julle selfverheffing is nie mooi nie. Weet julle nie dat 'n bietjie suurdeeg die hele deeg deurtrek nie? 7 Verwyder dan die ou suurdeeg, sodat julle nuwe, ongesuurde deeg kan wees, en dit is julle ook werklik. Ons paaslam is immers geslag: dit is Christus. 8 Laat ons dan feesvier, nie met die ou suurdeeg of met die suurdeeg van onsedelikheid en ander sonde nie, maar met die ongesuurde brood van reinheid en waarheid.
9 In die vorige brief het ek aan julle geskryf om nie met mense om te gaan wat in onsedelikheid leef nie. 10 Daarmee het ek glad nie die onsedelikes of die geldgieriges, bedrieërs of afgodsdienaars van hierdie wêreld bedoel nie, want om hulle te vermy, sou julle uit die wêreld moes padgee. 11 Wat ek geskryf het, was dat julle nie moet omgaan met iemand wat homself 'n gelowige noem, maar wat onsedelik of geldgierig of 'n afgodsdienaar of kwaadprater of dronkaard of bedrieër is nie. Met so iemand moet julle nie eens saam eet nie.
12-13 Per slot van rekening is dit nie vir my om oor mense buite die gemeente te oordeel nie. God sal oor hulle oordeel. Maar julle moet oor julle eie mense oordeel: “Verwyder die slegte mens onder julle uit!”t
1 Corinthians 5
1 IT IS actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, impurity of a sort that is condemned and does not occur even among the heathen; for a man has [his own] father’s wife. 2 And you are proud and arrogant! And you ought rather to mourn (bow in sorrow and in shame) until the person who has done this [shameful] thing is removed from your fellowship and your midst!3 As for my attitude, though I am absent [from you] in body, I am present in spirit, and I have already decided and passed judgment, as if actually present,4 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, on the man who has committed such a deed. When you and my own spirit are met together with the power of our Lord Jesus,5 You are to deliver this man over to Satan for physical discipline [to destroy carnal lusts which prompted him to incest], that [his] spirit may [yet] be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.6 [About the condition of your church] your boasting is not good [indeed, it is most unseemly and entirely out of place]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven will ferment the whole lump [of dough]?7 Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed.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 a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a 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 judgment [passing censuring sentence on them as the facts require]?13 God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside. Drive out that wicked one from among you [expel him from your church].