In Context

1 It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

3 For I, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

4 to deliver, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:

5 to deliver him, I say, being such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 5:4 in Other Translations