2 Corinthians 10:6

and being in readiness to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is made perfect.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

In Context

5casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

7Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trusts to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself consider this again, that, as he is Christ's, so also are we.

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Cross References

Acts 13:10and said: O full of all deceit and all wickedness, child of the Devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

1 Corinthians 5:3For I verily, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, concerning him who has so done this;

2 Corinthians 7:15And his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

2 Corinthians 13:10For this cause I write these things being absent, that when present I may not use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction.

3 John 1:10Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his deeds which he does, prating against us with evil words. And not content therewith, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and those who are willing he forbids, and casts them out of the church.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 10:2-7

The Apostle's Spiritual Authority. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God… Read the whole commentary →

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