2 Corinthians 10:6 - New Revised Standard Version We are ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Being in readiness to punish every [insubordinate for his] disobedience, when your own submission and obedience [as a church] are fully secured and complete. American Standard Version (1901) and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full. Common English Bible Once your obedience is complete, we are ready to punish any disobedience. Catholic Public Domain Version and standing ready to repudiate every disobedience, when your own obedience has been fulfilled. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled. |
What would you prefer? Am I to come to you with a stick, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
So I write these things while I am away from you, so that when I come, I may not have to be severe in using the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.
I warned those who sinned previously 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—
I wrote for this reason: to test you and to know whether you are obedient in everything.
And his heart goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the obedience of all of you, and how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.
among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may learn not to blaspheme.
So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with those charges, he refuses to welcome the friends, and even prevents those who want to do so and expels them from the church.