First Reading1 Corinthians 5:1-8
From the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians
1It is actually reportedthat there is sexual immorality among you,and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles,that one has his father’s wife.2You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead,that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.3For 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.4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,5you 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.
6Your boasting is not good.Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?7Purge 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.8Therefore 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.