"For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?" — 1 Corinthians 5:12

1 Corinthians 5:12 · KJV

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

— 1 Corinthians 5:12

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.

Verse 13

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

1 Corinthians 5 — Context

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.

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

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Cross References

Mark 4:11

And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all {these} things are done in parables:

1 Timothy 3:7

Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Luke 12:14

And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

1 Corinthians 5:3-5

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, {judged: or, determined}

1 Thessalonians 4:12

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and {that} ye may have lack of nothing. {of...: or, of no man}

1 Corinthians 6:1-5

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Colossians 4:5

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

John 18:36

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.