歌林多前書 5
行淫亂的人應當趕出教會
1 聽說你們中間竟然有淫亂的事,這樣的淫亂在教外人中間都沒有,就是有人和他的繼母同居。2 你們還是自高自大!難道你們不該覺得痛心,把作這件事的人從你們中間趕出去嗎?3 我身體雖然不在你們那裡,心靈卻與你們在一起,好像我親身在那裡審判了作這件事的人,4 就是當你們奉我們主耶穌的名聚集在一起,我的靈在那裡,我們主耶穌的權能也同在的時候,5 要把這樣的人交給撒但,敗壞他的身體,使他的靈魂在主的日子可以得救。6 你們這樣自誇是不好的。你們不知道一點麵酵能使全團麵發起來嗎?7 你們既是無酵的麵,就應當把舊酵除淨,好讓你們成為新的麵團;因為我們逾越節的羊羔基督已經被殺獻祭了。
8 所以我們守這節,不可用舊酵,也不可用又邪又惡的酵,而是要用純潔真實的無酵餅。
9 我以前寫信告訴你們,不可與淫亂的人來往。10 這話當然不是指這世上行淫亂的、貪心的、勒索的,或拜偶像的人;如果是這樣,你們就非脫離這世界不可。11 但現在我寫信告訴你們,如果有稱為弟兄,卻是行淫亂、貪心、拜偶像、辱罵人、醉酒或勒索的,這樣的人,不可和他來往,連和他吃飯都不可。12 審判教外的人,跟我有甚麼關係?教內的人不是你們審判的嗎?
13 至於教外的人, 神會審判他們。你們要把那惡人從你們中間趕出去。
1 Corinthians 5
Church Discipline
1 It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting witht his father’s wife.2 And you are proud!t Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did thist from among you?3 For even though I am absent physically,t I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.t4 When you gather together in the name of our Lord Jesus,s and I am with you in spirit,t along with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be savedt in the day of the Lord.s
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeasts affectst the whole batch of dough?7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
8 So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.t
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.10 In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christiant who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive,t or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.12 For what do I have to do with judging those outside? Are you not to judge those inside?
13 But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.s