2 Corinthians 10:6

and being ready to avenge every disobedience, when your obedience may be complete.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

7Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If any has trusted to himself that he belongs to Christ, let him again consider this in reference to himself, that as he belongs to Christ, so do we also.

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Cross References

Acts 13:10said, O thou full of all guile and rascality, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of God?

1 Corinthians 5:3For indeed I, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged the one having thus done this, as being present,

2 Corinthians 7:15And the affections of him, remembering the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling, are the more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 13:10Therefore being absent I write these things, in order that being present, I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

3 John 1:10On account of this, if I may come, I will remember his works which he is doing, berating us with wicked speeches: and not content with these, he does not receive the brethren, and he prohibits them wishing to receive them, 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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