2 Corinthians 12:21

New American Bible - revised edition

I fear that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness they practiced.

Cross References

Ezra 10:1

While Ezra prayed and acknowledged their guilt, weeping and prostrate before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites gathered about him, men, women, and children; and the people wept profusely.

Ezra 9:3

When I had heard this, I tore my cloak and my mantle, plucked hair from my head and beard, and sat there devastated.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not observed.

Exodus 32:31

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Ah, this people has committed a grave sin in making a god of gold for themselves!

Jeremiah 13:17

If you do not listen to this in your pride, I will weep many tears in secret; My eyes will run with tears for the Lord’s flock, led away to exile.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a travelers’ lodging! That I might leave my people and depart from them. They are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Romans 13:13

let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in rivalry and jealousy.

Romans 9:2

that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is widely reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans—a man living with his father’s wife.

2 Corinthians 10:6

and we are ready to punish every disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 12:7

because of the abundance of the revelations. Therefore, that I might not become too elated, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I warned those who sinned earlier and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not be lenient,

2 Corinthians 8:24

So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to them.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Deuteronomy 9:15

When I had come down again from the blazing, fiery mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in both my hands,

Deuteronomy 9:25

Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the Lord, because he had threatened to destroy you.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers.

2 Peter 2:18

For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.

Jude 1:23

save others by snatching them out of the fire; on others have mercy with fear, abhorring even the outer garment stained by the flesh. Doxology.

Jude 1:7

Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” The New Jerusalem.

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the unchaste, the murderers, the idol-worshipers, and all who love and practice deceit.

Revelation 22:20

The one who gives this testimony says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!

1 Samuel 15:35

Never again, as long as he lived, did Samuel see Saul. Yet he grieved over Saul, because the Lord repented that he had made him king of Israel.