¶ The .v. Chapter.
THere goeth a cōmen sayinge that ther [ A] * 1.1 is fornicacion amōge you / & soche forni¦cacion as is not once named amonge the gentyls: that one shuld have his fathers wyfe. And ye swell and have not rather soro∣wed / yt he which hath done this dede / myght* 1.2 be put frō amōge you. For I verely as absent in body / even so present in sprete / have deter∣myned all redy (as though I were present) of [ B] him that hath done this dede / in the name of oure Lorde Iesu Christ / when ye are gaddered togedder / & my sprete / with the power of the Lorde Iesus Christ / to deliver him vnto * 1.3 Sa¦tan / for y• destrucciō of the flesshe / yt the spre∣te maye be saved in ye daye of ye Lorde Iesus.
Youre reioysinge is not good: knowe ye not that a lytle levē sowreth the whole lompe of [ C] dowe. ✚ Pourge therfore the olde leven / that ye maye be newe dowe / as ye a••e swete breed. For Christ oure esterlambe is offered vp for* 1.4 vs. Therfore let vs kepe holy daye / not with oldelevē / nether with the leven of malicious¦nes and wickednes: but with the swete breed of purenes and truth. ⊢
I wrote vnto you in a pistle that ye shuld not company with fornicatours. And I meāt not at all of the fornicatours of this worlde / ether of the covet••ous / or of extorsioners / [ D] ether of the ydolaters: for then must ye nedes