First Corinthians

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1
I have heard that among you is someone who commits adultery. But it is an unparalleled kind of adultery, even among the families of the nations of polytheists. A man is having sex with the wife of his father.
لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ أَنَّ بَيْنَكُمْ مَنْ يَرْتَكِبُ الزِّنَى، بَلْ نُوعًا مِنَ الزِّنَى لَا مَثِيلَ لَهُ حَتَّى بَيْنَ أَهْلِ أُمَمِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ. إِذْ يُضَاجِعُ الْمَرْءُ زَوْجَةَ وَالِدِهِ.
2
And you are puffed up with pride! Should you not be sad and expel the one who commits this deed from your jama'a?
وَأَنْتُمْ مُنْتَفِخُونَ مِنَ التَّكَبُّرِ! أَفَمَا كَانَ يَجِبُ أَنْ تَحْزَنُوا وَتُبَعِّدُوا عَنْ جَمَاعَتِكُمْ مُرْتَكِبَ هَذَا الْفِعْلِ؟
3
I have condemned the one who does this deed, though I am absent in body, because I am present with you in Al-Ruh.
لَقَدْ حَكَمْتُ، وَأَنَا غَائِبٌ بِالْجَسَدِ وَحَاضِرٌ مَعَكُمْ فِي الرُّوحِ، عَلَى مُرْتَكِبِ هَذَا الْفِعْلِ.
4
When you meet in the name of our mawla Isa,
وَعِنْدَمَا تَجْتَمِعُونَ بِاسْمِ مَوْلَانَا عِيسَى، وَأَنَا مَعَكُمْ حَاضِرٌ فِي الرُّوحِ، فَبِقُوَّةِ مَوْلَانَا عِيسَى
5
deliver this person to Al-Shaitan so that his human nature would perish and his spirit would be saved on the day our mawla Isa comes.
سَلِّمُوا هَذَا الْإِنْسَانَ إِلَى الشَّيْطَانِ حَتَّى تُبَادَ طَبِيعَتُهُ الْبَشَرِيَّةُ فَتَنْجُوَ رُوحُهُ يَوْمَ مَجِيءِ مَوْلَانَا عِيسَى.
6
You should not boast. Do you not know that a little yeast make all the dough rise?
لَا يَنْبَغِي لَكُمُ الِافْتِخَارُ. أَلَا تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ الْخَمِيرَةَ الْقَلِيلَةَ تُخَمِّرُ الْعَجِينَ كُلَّهُ؟
7
Be pure from the old yeast, so that you will become new dough. You are the pure bread of the Eid of Unleavened Bread, and Al-Masih has been sacrificed. He is the lamb of ransom for the Eid of Pardon.
تَطَهَّرُوا مِنَ الْخَمِيرَةِ الْقَدِيمَةِ حَتَّى تُصْبِحُوا عَجِينًا جَدِيدًا، إِذْ أَنْتُمْ خُبْزُ عِيدِ الْفَطِيرِ الطَّاهِرُ وَقَدْ ذُبِحَ الْمَسِيحُ، وَهُوَ لَنَا حَمَلُ الْفِدَاءِ لِعِيدِ الصَّفْحِ،
8
So let us celebrate the Eid, not with bread yeasted with old yeast, nor with wrong and evil. Rather, let our bread be yeast-free, the bread of sincerity and truth.
فَلْنَحْتَفِلْ بِالْعِيدِ لَيْسَ بِخُبْزٍ مُخَمَّرٍ مِنَ الْخَمِيرَةِ الْقَدِيمَةِ وَلَا خَمِيرَةِ الْخُبْثِ وَالشَّرِّ، بَلْ لِيَكُنْ خُبْزُنَا دُونَ خَمِيرَةٍ، أَيْ خُبْزَ الْإِخْلَاصِ وَالْحَقِّ.
9
I wrote to you in my previous letter not to have dealings with adulterers.
لَقَدْ كَتَبْتُ إِلَيْكُمْ فِي رِسَالَتِي السَّابِقَةِ أَلَّا تُعَاشِرُوا الزُّنَاةَ،
10
I did not mean the adulterers of this world, the envious, the cheaters, and the idol worshippers. Otherwise, you would have to exit this world.
وَلَمْ أَقْصِدْ زُنَاةَ هَذِهِ الدُّنْيَا وَالْحَاسِدِينَ وَالنَّصَّابِينَ وَعَبَدَةَ الْأَصْنَامِ، وَإِلَّا فَعَلَيْكُمُ الْخُرُوجُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا.
11
I meant to avoid one who is considered a brother believer but practices adultery, envy, idol worship, cursing, drunkenness, or rape. Do not sit at a dining table with people like them.
لَكِنَّنِي قَصَدْتُ أَنْ تَجْتَنِبُوا مَنْ يُعْتَبَرُ أَخًا مُؤْمِنًا بَيْنَمَا هُوَ يُمَارِسُ الزِّنَى أَوِ الْحَسَدَ أَوْ عِبَادَةَ الْأَصْنَامِ، أَوِ السَّبَّ أَوِ السُّكْرَ أَوِ الِاغْتِصَابَ. فَمِثْلُ هَذَا لَا تَجْلِسُوا عَلَى مَائِدَةٍ مَعَهُ.
12
What is my business condemning those outside the jama'a? But should you not condemn those inside the jama'a?
مَا شَأْنِي وَالْحُكْمُ عَلَى الَّذِينَ هُمْ خَارِجَ الْجَمَاعَةِ؟ أَمَّا الَّذِينَ هُمْ دَاخِلَ الْجَمَاعَةِ، أَفَلَا يَجِبُ أَنْ تَحْكُمُوا عَلَيْهِمْ؟
13
Allah condemns those outside the jama'a. As for you, make that evil person disappear from among you.
اَللهُ يَحْكُمُ عَلَى الَّذِينَ هُمْ خَارِجَ الْجَمَاعَةِ، أَمَّا أَنْتُمْ، فَأَزِيلُوا ذَلِكَ الشَّرِيرَ مِنْ بَيْنِكُمْ.