2 Corinthians 12:21 Parallel Translations

I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have practiced. (NASB ©1995)

GWT:

I'm afraid that when I come to you again, my God may humble me. I may have to grieve over many who formerly led sinful lives and have not changed the way they think and act about the perversion, sexual sins, and promiscuity in which they have been involved.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

ASV:

lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

BBE:

And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

DBY:

lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.

ERV:

lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

WEY:

and that upon re-visiting you I may be humbled by my God in your presence, and may have to mourn over many whose hearts still cling to their old sins, and who have not repented of the impurity, fornication, and gross sensuality, of which they have been guilty.

WBS:

And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you, and I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and lewdness, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

WEB:

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

YLT:

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

2 Corinthians 12:21 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

2 Corinthians 13:2 I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,

Galatians 5:19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

12:21 [And] lest... my God will humble me among you. Lest he be humiliated by the prevalence of sensual sins also.
The uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness. The sins here named are the peculiar Gentile sins which he has rebuked so severely in both epistles.

WES:

12:21 Who had sinned before - My last coming to Corinth. Uncleanness - Of married persons. Lasciviousness - Against nature.

MHC:

12:11-21 We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own them as instruments in God's hand of good to us. Here is an account of the apostle's behaviour and kind intentions; in which see the character of a faithful minister of the gospel. This was his great aim and design, to do good. Here are noticed several sins commonly found among professors of religion. Falls and misdeeds are humbling to a minister; and God sometimes takes this way to humble those who might be tempted to be lifted up. These vast verses show to what excesses the false teachers had drawn aside their deluded followers. How grievous it is that such evils should be found among professors of the gospel! Yet thus it is, and has been too often, and it was so even in the days of the apostles.

CONC:

Afraid Already Bewail Cling Committed Debauchery Desires Earlier Evil Fear Flesh Fornication Grief Grieve Grieved Gross Guilty Hearts Heretofore Humble Humbled Humiliate Immorality Impurity Indulged Lasciviousness Lest Lewdness Licentiousness Lustfulness Mourn Past Practiced Practise Practised Presence Reformed Regard Regret Repented Re-visiting Sensuality Sexual Shame Sin Sinned Sins Unclean Uncleanness Whoredom Wrong

Afraid Already Bewail Cling Committed Debauchery Desires Earlier Evil Fear Flesh Fornication Grieved Gross Guilty Hearts Heretofore Humble Humbled Humiliate Immorality Impurity Indulged Lasciviousness Lewdness Lustfulness Mourn Past Practiced Presence Regret Repented Sensuality Sexual Shame Sin Sinned Sins Unclean Uncleanness Ways

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