新约 - 哥林多前书(1 Corinthians)第5章

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.
And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?
Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,
hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?
Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people--
not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."
哥林多前书第五章   林前 5:1-13> 会友犯了明显的罪,怎办好?罚?不太好吧,但是…… 

  5:1-13 教会必须对会友所犯的明显罪行采取纪律行动;若坐视不理,只能败坏教会。不过,不能把执行纪律处分视作报复,只能看作是治疗。哥林多教会有一件严重的罪行,就是有人与他的继母行了不道德的事,但其他会友却装作不知,不予处理。保罗告诉他们,教会有责任维持神所颁布的道德标准。神禁止我们论断别人,但祂也同样吩咐我们不可容忍罪恶,因为纵容罪行会影响其他信徒的属灵生命( 5:6 )。 

  教会纪律 

  林前 5:5> 若把人“交给撒但”,岂不放弃了他?怎样做才算合宜? 

  5:5 “把这样的人交给撒但”的意思是把他逐出信徒的圈子。若没有基督徒的属灵支持,他会变得孤单无助,也许这种无助绝望的境况会促使他悔改。把人驱逐出教会是执行纪律处分的最后办法,并且一定不能含有报复心态,必须出于爱心,正如父母管教儿女一样,纠正挽回他。教会的责任是要帮助犯罪者,而非伤害他们,要尽力鼓励他们悔改转回,重投教会的怀抱。 

  林前 5:6> 我包容他,所以我不张声,他犯的罪也不算大啊,我可没有隐瞒罪恶…… 

  5:6 保罗警告那些企图隐瞒这问题的人,他们这样公然容忍罪恶,会影响整体信徒的灵性。保罗并非期望人完全不犯罪,(事实上每个人每日都在罪中挣扎),只是指责那些故意犯罪、全无罪咎感、也不愿意悔改的人。教会绝不能包容这些罪恶,因为它会影响全教会的信徒。我们对其他信徒负有责任,如果不去纠正明知故犯的罪,教会就会混乱不堪甚至分裂。信徒应该互相鼓励、代求及彼此建立;绝不应容忍罪恶侵蚀危害教会。 

  林前 5:10-11> 有些人会故意犯罪的,你不知道?我们该怎么待他?这…… 

  5:10-11 保罗清楚指出我们不应与非基督徒断绝来往,因为这样我们便不能实践大使命,将福音传给他们(参太 28:18-20 )。但那自称基督徒,却故意犯一些圣经指明的罪行、又为自己的罪强行辩解的人,我们不要与他们来往。因为他们这样做,除损害了基督所拯救的人,也使基督的形像受损。一间教会倘若容纳这些人,就很难成为世上的光,并且破坏了基督在世的形像。为了教会属灵的合一,教会领袖必须用爱心来纠正罪行。 

  林前 5:12> 要管教、审判教内人,就要批评,但又不可论断人,真是…… 

  5:12 圣经常常教导我们不可说长道短或肆意论断。但是与此同时,我们却要判断及对付那些会伤害人的罪恶。保罗给我们的原则,并不是用在一些琐屑的小事上或用作报复;也不可以套用在信徒间私人的恩怨上。这些原则是用来处理教会中公开的罪行,或是某些自称基督徒,却不为自己的罪行懊悔的人。教会的责任是以爱心去管教及改变他。