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# 1 Corinthians 5

1 Corinthians 5 is chapter 5 of 16 in the First Letter to the Corinthians. Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He excommunicates the incestuous adulterer and admonishes them to purge out the old leaven.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Corinthians 5 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father.
2. And yet you are inflated, and you have not instead been grieved, so that he who has done this thing would be taken away from your midst.
3. Certainly, though absent in body, I am present in spirit. Thus, I have already judged, as if I were present, him who has done this.
4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you have been gathered together with my spirit, in the power of our Lord Jesus,
5. to hand over such a one as this to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
6. It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?
7. Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated.
8. And so, let us feast, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9. As I have written to you in an epistle: “Do not associate with fornicators,”
10. certainly not with the fornicators of this world, nor with the greedy, nor with robbers, nor with the servants of idolatry. Otherwise, you ought to depart from this world.
11. But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food.
12. For what have I to do with judging those who are outside? But do not even you yourselves judge those who are inside?
13. For those who are outside, God will judge. But send this evil person away from yourselves.

## 1 Corinthians 5 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Omnino auditur inter vos fornicatio, et talis fornicatio, qualis nec inter gentes, ita ut uxorem patris sui aliquis habeat.
2. Et vos inflati estis: et non magis luctum habuistis ut tollatur de medio vestrum qui hoc opus fecit.
3. Ego quidem absens corpore, præsens autem spiritu, jam judicavi ut præsens eum, qui sic operatus est,
4. in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi, congregatis vobis et meo spiritu, cum virtute Domini nostri Jesu,
5. tradere hujusmodi Satanæ in interitum carnis, ut spiritus salvus sit in die Domini nostri Jesu Christi.
6. Non est bona gloriatio vestra. Nescitis quia modicum fermentum totam massam corrumpit?
7. Expurgate vetus fermentum, ut sitis nova conspersio, sicut estis azymi. Etenim Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus.
8. Itaque epulemur: non in fermento veteri, neque in fermento malitiæ et nequitiæ: sed in azymis sinceritatis et veritatis.
9. Scripsi vobis in epistola: Ne commisceamini fornicariis:
10. non utique fornicariis hujus mundi, aut avaris, aut rapacibus, aut idolis servientibus: alioquin debueratis de hoc mundo exiisse.
11. Nunc autem scripsi vobis non commisceri: si is qui frater nominatur, est fornicator, aut avarus, aut idolis serviens, aut maledicus, aut ebriosus, aut rapax, cum ejusmodi nec cibum sumere.
12. Quid enim mihi de iis qui foris sunt, judicare? nonne de iis qui intus sunt, vos judicatis?
13. nam eos qui foris sunt, Deus judicabit. Auferte malum ex vobis ipsis.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2388: Offenses Against the Dignity of Marriage ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 129: The Canon of Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 613: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 610: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1364: The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1971: The New Law or the Law of the Gospel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1470: The Effects of This Sacrament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Mar 28, 2027: The Resurrection of the Lord — Alleluia, Cf. 1 Corinthians 5:7
- Sun, Apr 16, 2028 (computed): The Resurrection of the Lord — Alleluia, Cf. 1 Corinthians 5:7
- Mon, Sep 11, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Corinthians 5:1-8

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).