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Yakini habari imeenea ya kuwa kwenu kuna zinaa, na zinaa ya namna isiyokuwako hata katika Mataifa, kwamba mtu awe na mke wa babaye.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
2
Nanyi mwajivuna, wala hamkusikitika, ili kwamba aondolewe miongoni mwenu huyo aliyetenda jambo hilo.
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
3
Kwa maana kweli, nisipokuwapo kwa mwili, lakini nikiwapo kwa roho, mimi mwenyewe nimekwisha kumhukumu yeye aliyetenda jambo hilo, kana kwamba nikiwapo.
Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
4
Katika jina la Bwana wetu Yesu, ninyi mkiwa mmekusanyika pamoja na roho yangu, pamoja na uweza wa Bwana wetu Yesu;
When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
5
kumtolea Shetani mtu huyo, ili mwili uadhibiwe, ili na roho iokolewe katika siku ya Bwana Yesu.
hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
6
Kujisifu kwenu si kuzuri. Hamjui kwamba chachu kidogo hulichachusha donge zima?
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
7
Basi, jisafisheni, mkatoe ile chachu ya kale, mpate kuwa donge jipya, kama vile mlivyo hamkutiwa chachu. Kwa maana Pasaka wetu amekwisha kutolewa kuwa sadaka, yaani, Kristo;
Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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basi na tuifanye karamu, si kwa chachu ya kale, wala kwa chachu ya uovu na ubaya, bali kwa yasiyochachika, ndio weupe wa moyo na kweli.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
9
Naliwaandikia katika waraka wangu, kwamba msichangamane na wazinzi.
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10
Sisemi msichangamane kabisa na wazinzi wa dunia hii, au na wenye kutamani, au na wanyang'anyi, au na wenye kuabudu sanamu; maana hapo ingewalazimu kutoka katika dunia.
I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
11
Lakini, mambo yalivyo, naliwaandikia kwamba msichangamane na mtu aitwaye ndugu, akiwa ni mzinzi au mwenye kutamani au mwenye kuabudu sanamu au mtukanaji au mlevi au mnyang'anyi; mtu wa namna hii msikubali hata kula naye.
But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
12
Maana yanihusu nini kuwahukumu wale walio nje? Ninyi hamwahukumu hao walio ndani?
What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
13
Lakini hao walio nje Mungu atawahukumu. Ninyi mwondoeni yule mbaya miongoni mwenu.</p>
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”