The chapter ends by saying: “Expel the wicked person from among you.”
amen sister but if one reads and considers Paul’s second follow up letter he says this of the same man and he says this of the reason he did what he did Paul says he cried unceasing fly and was tormented in his heart over this matter
so you have the situation paul has addressed here
“It is reported commonly that
there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. ( the man’s sin ) And
ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. ( the churches error excusing and accepting this behavior in the body of Christ )
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present,
concerning him that hath so done this deed, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit( my doctrine you hears and believed when I was there with you ) , with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. ( sin corrupts more than just the person but also those who accept and normalize it in the church )
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore
let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. ( we have to change our ways now we’re in the body of Christ the temple of God )
I wrote unto you in an epistle
not to company with fornicators: yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But
now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”
1 Corinthians 5:1-11 KJV
This seems to be a settled matter but it actually isn’t when we see his second letter to them regarding this later . Two short sections particularly in his follow up letter showing us a lot about Paul’s heart and how much he cared about the people he was talking to and the grace of God that was made manifest in our lord Jesus Christ that he was witnessing
“For
out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but
that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.( Corinthians was Paul’s crown and joy of his works preaching Jesus )
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part:
that I may not overcharge you all. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. ( the punishment lasted a time to teach them then came grace to restore )
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. To whom ye forgive any thing,
I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it,
for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”
2 Corinthians 2:4-11 KJV
Then also more of the reasoning in his first letters rebuke
“For
though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: ( it grieves Paul to write the foret letter ) for I perceive that
the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
For
godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge!
In all things
ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. ( it’s now a settled matter
)
Wherefore, though I wrote unto you,
I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.”
2 Corinthians 7:8-12 KJV
whenever God rebukes is nd makes us aware we’re sinning even speaks harshly to us it is because he cares for us and knows where it Will lead us . It doesn’t feel good but it makes us aware d brings us the right heart that feels sorrow and regret over what we have done and causes the right heart knowing Jesus to cause us to repent and do better the next time to reconcile our wrong to overcome what we have done to prove that’s not who we really are now a
to change us from dark to light is Gods constant Will from sin to repentance and faith