y beloved sons I
admonish you. (15)For though ye have ten thousand instructors in
Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you
through the gospel. (16)I beseech you therefore, be followers of
me[4:16].

(17)For this cause I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and
faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in
Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

(18)Now some were puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
(19)But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know,
not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. (20)For the
kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. (21)What will ye? Shall I
come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of meekness?

V.

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such
fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife. (2)And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn,
that he who did this deed might be taken away from among you. (3)For I
verily, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged,
as though I were present, concerning him who has so done this; (4)in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being gathered together, and my
spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (5)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 glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens
the whole lump? (7)Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may
be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For our passover,
Christ, was sacrificed for us; (8)therefore let us keep the feast, not
with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

(9)I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;
(10)yet not, altogether, with the fornicators of this world, or with
the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters; for then ye must needs go
out of the world. (11)But as it is, I wrote to you not to keep
company, if any one called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or
an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such
a one not even to eat.

(12)For what have I to do with judging those also who are without? Do
not ye judge those who are within? (13)But those who are without God
judges. Therefore put away that wicked man from among you