kjv@1Corinthians:5:1@ It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
kjv@1Corinthians:5:2@ And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
kjv@1Corinthians:5:3@ For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
kjv@1Corinthians:5:4@ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
kjv@1Corinthians:5:5@ To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
kjv@1Corinthians:5:6@ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
kjv@1Corinthians:5:7@ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
kjv@1Corinthians:5:8@ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
kjv@1Corinthians:5:9@ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
kjv@1Corinthians:5:10@ Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
kjv@1Corinthians:5:11@ But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
kjv@1Corinthians:5:12@ For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
kjv@1Corinthians:5:13@ But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
We see that sin is not only what an individual does but how the congregation reacts to it. In the Law, the precept was given not only to the fornicator not to do it it but, to the citizens to revile and punish it. Their reaction either furthers lawfulness or furthers lawlessness in the community. In this new covenant they weren't to go to the extent of stoning the fornicator in the square but they were to strictly warn him and should he continue reject him from their fellowship. This assembly mistakenly gloried in their pious tolerance of this man and his acts.
This is the first plague where the people of Israel had to participate. Everything up to now they sat back and watched. Their action is to be reenacted yearly as a remembrance to all future generations and is very specific as the symbolism is exact and points to the coming Messiah. kjv@1Corinthians:5:7 describes Christ as our passover. He in every way fulfills the role of the lamb sacrificed (before the congregation) and the lamb's blood protecting/covering the chosen from a death otherwise meant for all. His death brings about our immediate release and exodus from the bondage of sin. Now the proofing of the believer begins.
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