📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 5:3
What does 1 Corinthians 5:3 mean?
"For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing."
— 1 Corinthians 5:3 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
are 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.
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
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