Paul closes the Corinthian discipline case with Deuteronomy’s recurring “purge the evil from among you” formula, adapting covenant-community removal language to church discipline. The repeated Torah refrain supplies the communal-holiness logic.

Paul’s command to remove the wicked person reuses Deuteronomy’s repeated covenant formula for purging evil from the community rather than depending uniquely on one individual law. Paul is drawing on a Deuteronomic refrain, not one isolated verse.

First Corinthians 5 reuses Deuteronomy’s recurring “purge the evil” formula, making Israel’s covenant-community discipline language part of Paul’s response to serious unrepentant sin.

Paul’s “put away from among yourselves that wicked person” draws on Deuteronomy’s repeated covenant refrain for removing serious evil from the community. The formula carries covenant holiness into the church setting.

First Corinthians 5 closes with language drawn from Deuteronomy’s repeated command to purge evil from the covenant community, here applied to serious sexual immorality in the church.

Paul’s discipline formula echoes Deuteronomy’s recurring command to purge evil from Israel, including sexual-offense laws, and transfers that covenant-community concern into the Corinthian church.

First Corinthians 5’s closing discipline command belongs to the recurring Deuteronomic language of purging evil from the covenant community, not to one isolated legal case alone. The book-wide refrain is stronger evidence than any single verse.