1 Corinthians 5:12
New Revised Standard Version
For what have I to do with judging those outside? Is it not those who are inside that you are to judge?

Contemporary English Version
Why should I judge outsiders? Aren't we supposed to judge only church members?

New American Bible
For why should I be judging outsiders? Is it not your business to judge those within?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within?

what.

Luke 12:14 But he said to him: Man, who hath appointed me judge or divider over you?

John 18:36 Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.

them.

Mark 4:11 And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:

Colossians 4:5 Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

1 Thessalonians 4:12 0

1 Timothy 3:7 Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

do not.

1 Corinthians 6:1-5 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints? . . .

Context
Expel the Immoral Brother
11But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat. 12For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within? 13For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.…
Cross References
Mark 4:11
And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:

1 Corinthians 5:3
I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,

1 Corinthians 6:1
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints?

1 Corinthians 5:11
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