Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
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