What I hope you see from a comparison of these quite similar passages is that Paul is extremely strong when targeting a person or persons polluting the community of faith. He is biting and aggressive and anything but gentle when evil yeast is infecting the community of faith. In 1 Corinthians the infection is the sin of incest. In Galatians the infection is a false teaching that has already separated some of them from the saving and transforming power of Christ. Infection of the com munity of faith is not dealt with in a spirit of gentleness.
Infection is dealt with by removing the offending party.
That is the kind of passion I believe God wants us to have for this body of believers. What I have come to realize then is that the passion of Paul s biting indictment of polluters is equaled by Paul s passion that believers love one another with a Spirit-empowered love. Remember that Paul is the author of the great love chapter in 1 Cor 13. In fact, let s notice that Paul begins explicitly to emphasize care for one another soon after his statement that the only thing that counts is faith working through love. If, however, you bite and devour one another , take care that you are not consumed by one another .