2 Corinthians 12:21

Paul's Concern About The Corinthians' Way Of Life

²⁰ For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder. ²¹ I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

Desires of the Flesh

In Sin

Of the Flesh

Sexual Immorality

In Your Presence

No

Sin

2 Corinthians 13:2

I have said it, and I say it again before I come, just as if I were with you on my second visit, though for the moment absent, I say to those who have been long sinning, as well as to all others--that if I come again, I shall spare no one.

1 Corinthians 5:1

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

Galatians 5:19

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

Colossians 3:5

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

Luke 9:41-42

"O faithless and perverse generation!" Jesus exclaimed; "how long must I be with you and have patience with you? Lead your son here."

Romans 9:2

Bears me out when I say that there is a great weight of sorrow upon me and that my heart is never free from pain.

Romans 13:13

Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people- -

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,

1 Corinthians 6:15-18

Do not you know that your bodies are Christ's members? Am I, then, to take the members that belong to the Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!

2 Corinthians 2:1-11

For my own sake, as well, I decided not to pay you another painful visit.

2 Corinthians 7:9-11

I am glad now; not because of the sorrow it caused you, but because your sorrow brought you to repentance. For it was God's will that you should feel sorrow, in order that you should not suffer loss in any way at our hands.

2 Corinthians 8:24

Show them, therefore--so that the Churches may see it-- the proof of your affection, and the ground for our boasting to them about you.

2 Corinthians 9:3-4

So my reason for sending our Brothers is to prevent what we said about you from proving, in this particular matter, an empty boast, and to enable you to be as well prepared as I have been saying that you are.

2 Corinthians 10:6

And are fully prepared to punish every act of rebellion, when once your submission is complete.

2 Corinthians 12:7

It was for this reason, and to prevent my thinking too highly of myself, that a thorn was sent to pierce my flesh--an instrument of Satan to discipline me--so that I should not think too highly of myself.

Ephesians 5:5-6

For of this you may be sure--that no one who is unchaste or impure or greedy of gain (for to be greedy of gain is idolatry) has any place awaiting him in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Philippians 3:18-19

For there are many--of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears--who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7

For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

1 Peter 4:2-3

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

2 Peter 2:10-14

especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,

2 Peter 2:18

With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

Jude 1:7

Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, the punishment of aeonian fire.

Jude 1:23

To others show pity, but with caution, hating the very clothing polluted by their touch.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

Revelation 22:15

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'

Revelation 22:20

He whose testimony this is says-- 'Assuredly I will come quickly.' 'Amen, come, Lord Jesus.'