your wish? That I should come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in
the spirit of meekness?

CHAP. V.

IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such
whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife. (2)And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather
to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from
the midst of you. (3)For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in
spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so
done this thing; (4)in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being
assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus
Christ, (5)to deliver such a one over 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
leaveneth the whole mass? (7)Purge out therefore the old leaven, that
ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened.

For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ. (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 have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate
with fornicators. (10)Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this
world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters: for then must ye
indeed go out of the world. (11)But now I have written unto you not to
associate with him, if any man, professing to be 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 call have
I to judge those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within
_the church_? (13)But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away
that wicked man from among yourselves.

CHAP. VI.

DARE any of you, having a matter of controversy with another, sue for
judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints? (2)Know ye not
that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged
by you, are ye unworthy to be judges in the smallest matters? (3)Know
ye not that we shall judge angels, much more things pertaining to this
life?

(4)If then ye have disputes about the things of this life, do you seat
those on the bench who are least esteemed in the church? (5)I speak to
you to shame you. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man? Not