Dealing With a Case of Incest
1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. 2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,5:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.5:5 Or of his body so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister5:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 8:11, 13. but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.
12What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”5:13 Deut. 13:5; 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21,24; 24:7
Adwamammɔ
1Nnansa yi, wɔkeka sɛ adwaman a morebɔ wɔ asafo no mu no yɛ hu a abosonsomfoɔ mpo renyɛ saa. Mate mpo sɛ obi afa nʼagya yere. 2Na ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na moatumi ahoahoa mo ho? Adɛn enti na ɛnsɛ sɛ mo werɛ ho wɔ ho na mompam saa onipa no mfiri mo mu. 3Ɛwom sɛ me deɛ, me ne mo ntam ɛkwan ware, nanso, mewɔ mo nkyɛn honhom mu. Yɛn Awurade Yesu din mu, mabu onipa a ɔyɛɛ afideɛ yi atɛn dada te sɛ deɛ mewɔ mo nkyɛn ara pɛ. 4Mohyia na meka mo ho wɔ honhom mu a, Awurade Yesu tumi a ɛka yɛn ho no enti, 5ɛsɛ sɛ mode saa onipa no ma ɔbonsam na ɔsɛe ne onipadua no na Awurade da no duru a, wagye ne honhom nkwa.
6Ɛnsɛ sɛ mohoahoa mo ho. Monim sɛ, “Mmɔka kakra bi na ɛma mmɔre no tu.” 7Ɛsɛ sɛ moyi saa bɔne mmɔreka dada yi firi mo mu na moayɛ kronn. Ɛba saa a, mobɛyɛ sɛ mmɔre foforɔ a mmɔreka nni mu sɛdeɛ menim mo sɛ mote dada no. Afei a wɔde Kristo a ɔyɛ yɛn Twam Afahyɛ Odwan no abɔ afɔdeɛ no, yɛn Twam Afahyɛ no aduru so. 8Yei enti, mommma yɛmmfa mmɔreka dada a ɛyɛ bɔne no nni afahyɛ no, na mmom, yɛmfa burodo a mmɔreka nni mu na ɛyɛ kronn no nni afahyɛ no.
9Krataa a metwerɛɛ mo no, mekaa wɔ mu sɛ mommfa mo ho mmɔ adwamanfoɔ ho. 10Menkyerɛ ewiase yi adwamanfoɔ anaa aniberefoɔ anaa akorɔmfoɔ anaa wɔn a wɔsom ahoni. Sɛ wompɛ sɛ wo ne yeinom bɔ a, na ɛsɛ sɛ wofiri ewiase koraa. 11Deɛ mekyerɛ ne sɛ, mommfa mo ho mmɔ onipa a ɔfrɛ ne ho sɛ onua nanso ɔbɔ adwaman anaa ɔyɛ oniberefoɔ anaa ɔsom ahoni anaa ɔkɔnkɔnsani anaa ɔkɔwensani anaa ɔkorɔmfoɔ. Onipa a ɔte saa no, mo ne no nntena ase nto nsa nnidi.
12Adɛn enti na ɛsɛ sɛ mebu wɔn a wɔnka asafo no ho atɛn? Ɛnyɛ wɔn a wɔwɔ asafo no mu mmom na ɛsɛ sɛ mobu wɔn atɛn? 13Onyankopɔn na ɔbɛbu wɔn a wɔnni asafo no mu atɛn, sɛdeɛ Atwerɛsɛm no ka sɛ, “Monyi onipa ɔbɔnefoɔ no mfiri mo mu.”
