1 Corinthians 5:12 meaning and explanation

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

1 Corinthians 5:12, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul is answering a church that boasted while tolerating a man living with his father's wife. Here he sets limits on the church's judgment: outsiders, those who do not profess faith, are not the community's responsibility to police, since God will judge them.

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