12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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:
And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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, …
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-13)Here the apostle advises them to shun the company and converse of scandalous professors. Consider, I. The advice itself: I wrote to you in a letter not to company with fornicators , 1 Cor. 5:9. Some think this was an epistle written to them before, which is lost. Yet we have lost nothing by it, the Christian revelation being entire in those books of scripture which have come down to us, which are…
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