1Cor 5:12 | JFB | STEP | 12. what have I to do —You might have easily understood that my concern is not with unbelievers outside the Church, but that I referred to those within it. also —Implying, Those within give me enough to do without those outside. do not ye, &c.—Ye judge your fellow citizens, not strangers: much more should I [BENGEL ]. Rather, Is it not your duty to judge them that are within? God shall judge them that are without: do you look at home [GROTIUS ]. God is the Judge of the salvation of the heathen, not we ( ). Paul here gives an anticipatory censure of their going to law with saints before heathen tribunals, instead of judging such causes among themselves within.

1 Corinthians 5:12

12. what have I to do—You might have easily understood that my concern is not with unbelievers outside the Church, but that I referred to those within it.

also—Implying, Those within give me enough to do without those outside.

do not ye, &c.—Ye judge your fellow citizens, not strangers: much more should I [BENGEL]. Rather, Is it not your duty to judge them that are within? God shall judge them that are without: do you look at home [GROTIUS]. God is the Judge of the salvation of the heathen, not we (Ro 2:12-16). Paul here gives an anticipatory censure of their going to law with saints before heathen tribunals, instead of judging such causes among themselves within.