Letters to the Churches

And ye are puffed vp and haue not rather sorowed, that he which hath done this deede, might be put from among you.

For I verely as absent in bodie, but present in spirit, haue determined already as though I were present, that he that hath thus done this thing,

When ye are gathered together, and my spirit, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that such one, I say, by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ,

Be deliuered vnto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus.

Your reioycing is not good: knowe ye not that a litle leauen, leaueneth ye whole lumpe?

Purge out therefore the olde leauen, that ye may be a newe lumpe, as ye are vnleauened: for Christ our Passeouer is sacrificed for vs.

Therefore let vs keepe the feast, not with olde leauen, neither in the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of synceritie and trueth.

I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, that ye should not companie together with fornicatours,

And not altogether with the fornicatours of this world, or with the couetous, or with extortioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must goe out of the world.

But nowe I haue written vnto you, that ye companie not together: if any that is called a brother, be a fornicatour, or couetous, or an idolater, or a rayler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such one eate not.

For what haue I to doe, to iudge them also which are without? doe ye not iudge them that are within?

But God iudgeth them that are without. Put away therefore from among your selues that wicked man.

Dare any of you, hauing businesse against an other, be iudged vnder the vniust, and not vnder the Saintes?

Doe ye not knowe, that the Saintes shall iudge the worlde? If the worlde then shalbe iudged by you, are ye vnworthie to iudge the smallest matters?

Knowe ye not that we shall iudge the Angels? howe much more, things that perteine to this life?

If then ye haue iudgements of things perteining to this life, set vp them which are least esteemed in the Church.

I speake it to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no not one, that can iudge betweene his brethren?

But a brother goeth to law with a brother, and that vnder the infidels.

Nowe therefore there is altogether infirmitie in you, in that yee goe to lawe one with another: why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather susteine yee not harme?

Nay, yee your selues doe wrong, and doe harme, and that to your brethren.

Knowe yee not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor buggerers,

Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners shall inherite the kingdome of God.

And such were some of you: but yee are washed, but yee are sanctified, but yee are iustified in the Name of the Lord Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

All thinges are lawfull vnto mee, but all thinges are not profitable. I may doe all things, but I will not be brought vnder the power of any thing.

Meates are ordeined for the bellie, and the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.