1Now listen. I have to talk straight to you about something. Some people have told me there is something bad going on in your church family. One of you has his father’s wife as his girlfriend, and he is sleeping with her. Even people that don’t know God don’t do that.
2But you mob don’t seem to care. And you think you are great. But you really have to be ashamed and sad, not happy. That man is doing a very bad thing, so you can’t let him stay in your church family.
3Listen, I’m not there with you mob, but my spirit is there with you, so it’s like I am with you now. And I’m thinking about this man that is doing that very bad thing, and I tell you this.
4I know you will meet together as followers of our leader Jesus, and at that time my spirit will be there with you, and the powerful spirit of Jesus too will be there with you.
5Then, at that meeting, you have ask God to let Satan hurt this man. Satan is the boss of the bad spirits. Satan will hurt that man’s body, but God can save that man’s spirit when our leader Jesus comes back.
6So stop telling everyone that you are properly good. It’s not true. Let me tell you a picture story about yeast. Yeast is like baking powder. We put a little bit of yeast into the flour when we make bread. And that little bit of yeast goes into all the flour in the bowl and makes the whole bowl of dough swell up.
7This is a picture of that one person in your mob that does bad things. He is like that yeast in the picture story, he will get all of you mob to go wrong, like that yeast made all the dough swell up. So get rid of that bad person. Then you will be straight and clean, like new clean dough that hasn’t got any yeast in it. And really, you are clean like that. And remember, Jesus Christ died for us to clean us from the wrong things we did, so we are like that clean dough. Jesus is like the young sheep that the Jews kill and eat at their ceremony called Passover. Well, just like that young sheep died, Jesus died for us. And think about this. Before that ceremony they have to get rid of all their yeast, and then they eat flat damper that hasn’t got any yeast in it.
8That is a picture of us church people. We have to get rid of everything that is bad, and we have to stop doing wrong, just like they got rid of that yeast. Instead, we have to be good and honest and true.
9I wrote you a letter before, and I told you, “Don’t be good friends with bad people. There are some that play around and sleep with people are not their own wives or husbands. Keep away from those people.”
10But I did not mean that you have to keep away from the people of this world that don’t know God. Some of them sleep with somebody that is not their own wife or husband. Some of them are greedy. They want a lot of things and money. Some of them trick other people to get their money, and some of them respect bad spirits and make them their gods. If you try to keep away from all those bad people, you will have to leave this world, and you can’t do that.
11No. This is what I meant. Don’t be good friends with people that reckon they are Christians but they do bad things all the time. If they sleep with people that are not their own wife or husband, as if they are married to them, don’t be good friends with them. Or if they are greedy, don’t be good friends with them. If they respect bad spirits and make them their gods, don’t be good friends with them. If they yell and swear at other people, don’t be good friends with them. If they always get drunk, don’t be good friends with them. If they trick other people to get their money, don’t be good friends with them. Don’t even eat a meal with a Christian that does things like that.
12You see, I can’t be the judge of people that are not Christians. God will judge those people, and he will punish those people that do bad things. But if a Christian in your church group does bad things, you have to decide how to punish them. You have to do what we read in God’s book, “Get rid of bad people from your group.”
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