2 Corinthians 12:21

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Summary

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

My god

2 Corinthians 12:7

2 Corinthians 8:24

2 Corinthians 9:3

That i

Sinned

2 Corinthians 13:2

And have not

Revelation 22:20

Uncleanness

Bible References

My god

and lest I should be exalted above measure by the extraordinary revelations I have had, I was afflicted in my person, so that the messenger of satan insulted me; concerning which,

wherefore show how much you love them, and how well you deserve the character I gave you, before all the churches.

yet have I sent the brethren, that my character of you may not appear to be groundless, with respect to that part wherein I said, ye would be ready:

That i

But I purposed in my self, I would not be the occasion of any uneasiness to you when I come again.

then said Jesus, O incredulous, and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring hither your son.

that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart.

for there are many that wander about, of whom I have frequently told you, and now repeat it with tears, that they are enemies to the cross of Christ:

Sinned

I told you once before, and now being absent I write to forewarn you and all that have sinned, that when I shall arrive, I will not spare them;

And have not

The affliction I have had, comes only from a particular quarter, so that my resentment does not affect the whole church.

now I rejoice, not at your uneasiness, but at your repentance which succeeded: for your sorrow was a religious sorrow, such as convinc'd you I had done you no wrong.

and I am prepar'd, when you have discharg'd your duty, to make examples of the rest for their disobedience.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

he who testifieth these things, saith, "I come quickly." Amen. even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Uncleanness

let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy.

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature?

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,

for this you know, that no licentious or dissolute person, no lewd libertine, that is, an idolater, hath any part in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

especially those, who prostitute themselves to sensual infamous passions: who despise magistrates, who being audacious, and insolent, intrepidly calumniate the higher powers;

so it was with Sodom, Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, who abandoning themselves to the same licentiousness and abominable passions, were made examples by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

but the fearful, and incredulous, the abominable, the murderer, the licentious, the poisoner, the idolater, and every lyar shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: this is the second death."

"but without are the execrable, the poisoners, the licentious, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who are pleas'd with, or practise deceit.