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 not find you to be what I desire, and that you may find me to be what you do not desire; that perhaps there may be contention, jealousy, bitter feeling, party spirit, ill-natured talk, backbiting, undue eulogy, unrest; ²¹ and that upon re-visiting you I may be humbled by my God in your presence, and may have to mourn over many whose hearts still cling to their old sins, and who have not repented of the impurity, fornication, and gross sensuality, of which they have been guilty.

Desires of the Flesh

In Sin

Of the Flesh

Sexual Immorality

In Your Presence

No

Sin

2 Corinthians 13:2

Those who cling to their old sins, and indeed all of you, I have forewarned and still forewarn (as I did on my second visit when present, so I do now, though absent)

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

Galatians 5:19

Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

Luke 9:41-42

"O unbelieving and perverse generation!" replied Jesus; "how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here to me."

Romans 9:2

when I declare that I have deep grief and unceasing anguish of heart.

Romans 13:13

Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators;

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

1 Corinthians 6:15-18

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.

2 Corinthians 2:1-11

But, so far as I am concerned, I have resolved not to have a painful visit the next time I come to see you.

2 Corinthians 7:9-11

Now I rejoice, not in your grief, but because the grief led to repentance; for you sorrowed with a godly sorrow, which prevented you from receiving injury from us in any respect.

2 Corinthians 8:24

Exhibit therefore to the Churches a proof of your love, and a justification of our boasting to these brethren about you.

2 Corinthians 9:3-4

Still I send the brethren in order that in this matter our boast about you may not turn out to have been an idle one; so that, as I have said, you may be ready;

2 Corinthians 10:6

while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully shown your obedience.

2 Corinthians 12:7

And judging by the stupendous grandeur of the revelations--therefore lest I should be over-elated there has been sent to me, like the agony of impalement, Satan's angel dealing blow after blow, lest I should be over-elated.

Ephesians 5:5-6

For be well assured that no fornicator or immoral person and no money-grubber--or in other words idol-worshipper--has any share awaiting him in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

Philippians 3:18-19

For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7

For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 4:2-3

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

2 Peter 2:10-14

and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;

2 Peter 2:18

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

Jude 1:7

So also Sodom and Gomorrah--and the neighboring towns in the same manner--having been guilty of gross fornication and having gone astray in pursuit of unnatural vice, are now before us as a specimen of the fire of the Ages in the punishment which they are undergoing.

Jude 1:23

others you must try to save, as brands plucked from the flames; and on others look with pity mingled with fear, while you hate every trace of their sin.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards and the unfaithful, and the polluted, and murderers, fornicators, and those who practise magic or worship idols, and all liars--the portion allotted to them shall be in the Lake which burns with fire and sulphur. This is the Second Death."

Revelation 22:15

The unclean are shut out, and so are all who practise magic, all fornicators, all murderers, and those who worship idols, and every one who loves falsehood and tells lies.

Revelation 22:20

"He who solemnly declares all this says, "'Yes, I am coming quickly.'" Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.