And after you have become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.
Parallel translations
- WEB and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
- KJV And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
- 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.
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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 I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
- Num 16:26–30He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
- 2 Cor 7:15His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
- 2 Cor 13:2I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
- 1 Cor 5:3–5For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
- Acts 5:3–11But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
- Acts 13:10–11and said, “Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- 2 Cor 13:10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
- 3 Jn 1:10Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
- 1 Tim 1:20of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
- 1 Cor 4:21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
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