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1 Corinthians 5:4 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, "
1 Corinthians 5:4
Verse in Context
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2 You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
3 For 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.
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 you 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.
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
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1 Corinthians 5:1
"It is actually reported that 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."
1 Corinthians 5:2
"You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you."
1 Corinthians 5:3
"For 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."
1 Corinthians 5:5
"you 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."
1 Corinthians 5:6
"Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?"
1 Corinthians 5:7
"Purge 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."
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