2 Corinthians 12:21 Cross References - Living_Oracles

²¹ And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you; and I shall bewail many, who have formerly sinned, and have not reformed from the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

¹⁹ Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these. Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

² so that he no longer lives his remaining time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. ³ For the time which has passed of life, is sufficient to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, having walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excesses in wine, revellings, carousals, and abominable idolatries.

⁴¹ Then, Jesus answering, said, O incredulous and perverse generation! how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring your son hither. ⁴² And as he was coming, the demon dashed him down in convulsions. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and having cured the child, delivered him to his father.

² that I have great grief and unceasing anguish, in my heart,

¹³ Let us walk about decently, as in the day, not in revellings and drunkenness; not in chamberings and lasciviousness; not in strife and envy.

¹ It is generally reported that there is incest among you; and such incest as is not even among the heathens-that one has his father's wife.

⁹ I wrote you, in that epistle, not to associate with the vicious; ¹⁰ but I did not mean in general the fornicators of this world, the avaricious, the rapacious, or the idolaters; seeing, then, indeed, you must go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I write to you, if any one, called a brother, be a fornicator, or a covetous person, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; not to associate, not even to eat, with such a person.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, by the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall, I, then, take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? By no means. ¹⁶ What! do you not know that he who is strongly attached to a harlot is one body? for he says, "The two shall be one flesh." ¹⁷ But he, who is strongly attached to the Lord, is one spirit. ¹⁸ Flee uncleanness. Every sin which a man commits, is without the body: but he who commits uncleanness, sins against his own body.

¹ Besides, I determined this with myself, not to come again to you with sorrow. ² For if I should make you sorry, who then is he that could make me glad, unless the same who is made sorry by me? ³ Wherefore, I wrote to you this very thing, that, coming, I might not have sorrow from them in whom I ought to rejoice; being firmly persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not that you might be made sorry, but that you might know the love which I have most abundantly toward you. ⁵ Now, if a certain person has grieved me, he has not grieved me except by a part of you, that I may not lay a load on you all. ⁶ Sufficient for such a one is the punishment, which was inflicted by the majority. ⁷ So that, on the other hand, you ought more willingly to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one should be swallowed up by excessive grief. ⁸ Wherefore, I beseech you to confirm your love to him. ⁹ For to this end, also, I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things. ¹⁰ Now, to whom you forgive anything, I also forgive: and even I, if I have now forgiven anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it, in the person of Christ: ¹¹ that we may not be overreached by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

⁹ I now rejoice; not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow produced reformation: for you were made to sorrow in a godly manner, that you might be injured by us in nothing. ¹⁰ For godly sorrow produces a reformation to salvation, never to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world produces death. ¹¹ Behold, now, this very thing-your being made sorry with a godly sorrow-what carefulness it wrought in you; yes, what clearing of yourselves; yes, what indignation; yes, what fear; yes, what earnest desire; yes, what zeal; yes, what revenge! Upon the whole, you have showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

²⁴ Wherefore, the proof of your love, and of our boasting concerning you, display before them, and before the face of the congregations.

³ Yet I have sent the brethren, that our boasting concerning you, may not be rendered false in this particular; but that as I said you may be prepared. ⁴ Lest, perhaps, if the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not you) should be put to shame by this confidence.

⁶ and are prepared to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is completed.

⁷ Indeed, that I might not be exalted above measure by the transcendency of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

² I have told you before, and now forewarn the second time, (as if present, though still absent,) those who have formerly sinned, and all others, that when I come again I will not spare;

⁵ For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor lascivious man, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain speeches; for on account of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

¹⁸ (For I have often told you, and now tell you, even weeping, that many walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ; ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetites, whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

⁵ Mortify, therefore, your members which are on the earth; fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and licentiousness, which is idolatry;

³ for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom- ⁴ that every one of you should know how to possess his own body in sanctification and honor- ⁵ not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God. ⁶ That no man should go beyond bounds, or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all such; ⁷ for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and the bed unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

¹⁰ but especially those who go after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and who despise government: being audacious, self-willed, who fear not to revile dignitaries; ¹¹ whereas, angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. ¹² But these, as natural, irrational animals, made for capture and destruction, speaking evil of matters which they do not understand, shall be utterly destroyed by their own corruptions; ¹³ receiving the due reward of unrighteousness. These delight to spend the day in luxurious festivity: they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceits when they feast with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of the adulteress, incessantly sinning, alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised with insatiable desires; an accursed progeny:

¹⁸ for, speaking great swelling words of falsehood, they allure by the lusts of the flesh, even by lasciviousness, those who have actually fled away from them who are living in error.

⁷ Likewise Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, which, after their example, had habitually committed uncleanness, and gone after other flesh, are set forth an example, suffering the punishment of an eternal fire.

²³ but others, save by fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

⁸ But, as for the cowards, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and prostitutes, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars-their part shall be in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹⁵ Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who loves and invents a lie.)

²⁰ He who testifies these things, says, Surely, I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.