1 Corinthians 5:12 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“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

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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.

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.

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.

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1 Corinthians 5:1

"It is reported commonly {that there is} fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife."

1 Corinthians 5:2

"And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you."

1 Corinthians 5:3

"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 Corinthians 5:4

"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,"

1 Corinthians 5:5

"To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."

1 Corinthians 5:6

"Your glorying {is} not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?"

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