And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Parallel translations
- WEB and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
- BSB And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.
- NKJV and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
- NASB and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
- NLT And after you have become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.
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Quick answer
Paul stands ready to discipline persistent disobedience once the obedience of the faithful majority is complete. He distinguishes between the loyal and the rebellious.
Overview
Paul is prepared to deal with stubborn rebels, but only after the obedient have been fully restored. His priority is the church's repentance; judgment on the unrepentant is a last resort. This reflects ordered pastoral care that seeks restoration first and confronts hardened opposition with appropriate firmness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 2 Cor 2:9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
- Num 16:26–30And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
- 2 Cor 7:15And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
- 2 Cor 13:2I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
- 1 Cor 5:3–5For 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,
- Acts 5:3–11But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
- Acts 13:10–11And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- 2 Cor 13:10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
- 3 Jn 1:10Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.
- 1 Tim 1:20Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
- 1 Cor 4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
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