1 Corinthians 5:12

For what business have I to judge them who are without? But those within the body, judge ye,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

In Context

11But this is what I wrote to you, that ye commingle not, if any one is called a brother, and is a whoremonger, or avaricious, or an idol-worshipper, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with him who is such, not even to eat bread.

13and those without, God judgeth; and remove ye the wickedness from among you.

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Cross References

Mark 4:11And Jesus said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them without, all is in similitudes:

John 18:36Jesus said to him: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have fought, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews: but now, my kingdom is not from hence.

1 Corinthians 6:1Dare any of you, when he hath a controversy with his brother, litigate before the iniquitous, and not before the sanctified?

1 Thessalonians 4:12and that ye walk becomingly towards those without; and that ye be dependent on no man.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:10-13

Advice to Shun Scandalous Professors. ( a. d. 57.) 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 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. 11 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. 12 For what have I to do… Read the whole commentary →

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