and being ready to avenge every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 2:9 - English Majority Text Version For to this end I also wrote, so that I might put you to the test, to see if you are obedient in all things. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For this was my purpose in writing you, to test your attitude and see if you would stand the test, whether you are obedient and altogether agreeable [to following my orders] in everything. American Standard Version (1901) For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. Common English Bible This is another reason why I wrote you. I wanted to test you and see if you are obedient in everything. Catholic Public Domain Version It was for this reason, also, that I wrote, so that I might know, by testing you, whether you would be obedient in all things. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things. |
and being ready to avenge every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.
And I wrote this very thing to you, lest when I came, I should have sorrow from those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
For out of much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you, through many tears, not that you might be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.
how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their generosity.
Therefore show to them the proof of your love, and of our boasting concerning you, before the churches.
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
And you know his approved character, that as a child with his father he served as a slave for the gospel.
Now if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, take note of him, and do not associate with him, that he may be ashamed.
Having been persuaded of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.