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New Living Translation

2 Corinthians 10:6

And after you have become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   The Topic Concordance - War/weapons;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Vengeance;   2 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, Second Epistle to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discipline;   Obedience;   Presence;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Army;   Fulfil;   Revenge;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 11;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And we are ready to punish any disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
King James Version (1611)
And hauing in a readinesse to reuenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
King James Version
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
English Standard Version
being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
New American Standard Bible
and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
New Century Version
We are ready to punish anyone there who does not obey, but first we want you to obey fully.
Amplified Bible
being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
Legacy Standard Bible
and are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.
Berean Standard Bible
And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.
Contemporary English Version
And when you completely obey him, we will punish anyone who refuses to obey.
Complete Jewish Bible
And when you have become completely obedient, then we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience.
Darby Translation
and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.
Easy-to-Read Version
We are ready to punish anyone there who does not obey, but first we want you to be fully obedient.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hauing ready the vengeance against all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
George Lamsa Translation
And we are prepared to seek vengeance on those who are disobedient, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Good News Translation
And after you have proved your complete loyalty, we will be ready to punish any act of disloyalty.
Lexham English Bible
And we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is completed.
Literal Translation
and having readiness to avenge all disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.
American Standard Version
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
Bible in Basic English
Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.
Hebrew Names Version
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
International Standard Version
We are ready to punish every act of disobedience when your obedience is complete.2 Corinthians 2:9; 7:15;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And we are prepared to execute the punishment of those who obey not, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.
Murdock Translation
And we are prepared, when your obedience shall be complete, to execute judgment on all the disobeying.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And are readie to take vengeaunce on all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfylled.
English Revised Version
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.
World English Bible
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, now your obedience is fulfilled.
Weymouth's New Testament
while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully shown your obedience.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And we han redi to venge al vnobedience, whanne youre obedience schal be fillid.
Update Bible Version
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
Webster's Bible Translation
And having in a readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
New English Translation
We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
New King James Version
and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
New Life Bible
We are ready to punish those who will not obey as soon as you obey in everything.
New Revised Standard
We are ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And when we hold ourselves, in readiness, to avenge all disobedience, as soon as your obedience shall be fulfilled!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.
Revised Standard Version
being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and are redy to take vengeaunce on all disobedience when youre obedience is fulfilled.
Young's Literal Translation
and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& are ready to take vengeaunce on all disobedience, whan youre obediece is fulfylled.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and I am prepar'd, when you have discharg'd your duty, to make examples of the rest for their disobedience.
Simplified Cowboy Version
We won't hesitate to punish anyone who tries to do their own thing in this outfit. That ain't what we want though. We want you to ride for the brand and follow Jesus.

Contextual Overview

1 Now I, Paul, appeal to you with the gentleness and kindness of Christ—though I realize you think I am timid in person and bold only when I write from far away. 2 Well, I am begging you now so that when I come I won't have to be bold with those who think we act from human motives. 3 We are human, but we don't wage war as humans do. 4 We use God's mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. 5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ. 6 And after you have become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in: 2 Corinthians 13:2, 2 Corinthians 13:10, Numbers 16:26-30, Acts 5:3-11, Acts 13:10, Acts 13:11, 1 Corinthians 4:21, 1 Corinthians 5:3-5, 1 Timothy 1:20, 3 John 1:10

when: 2 Corinthians 2:9, 2 Corinthians 7:15

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 2:24 - cursed them Proverbs 26:3 - General Romans 6:17 - but ye 1 Corinthians 5:5 - deliver 2 Corinthians 1:23 - that 2 Corinthians 12:20 - and that 2 Corinthians 12:21 - and have not Galatians 5:10 - bear 2 Thessalonians 3:14 - obey

Cross-References

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.
Genesis 10:8
Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.
Genesis 10:16
Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
1 Chronicles 4:40
They found lush pastures there, and the land was spacious, quiet, and peaceful. Some of Ham's descendants had been living in that region.
Psalms 78:51
He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family, the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.
Psalms 105:23
Then Israel arrived in Egypt; Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
Psalms 105:27
They performed miraculous signs among the Egyptians, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Psalms 106:22
such wonderful things in the land of Ham, such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.
Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the remnant of his people— those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt; in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam; in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.
Jeremiah 46:9
Charge, you horses and chariots; attack, you mighty warriors of Egypt! Come, all you allies from Ethiopia, Libya, and Lydia who are skilled with the shield and bow!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience,.... Not with the temporal sword, as the civil magistrate, but with the spiritual one; meaning either censures and excommunication, which a faithful minister of the Gospel, with the suffrage of the church, has at hand, and a power to make use of, for the reclaiming of disobedient persons; or rather that extraordinary power which was peculiar to the apostles, of inflicting punishments on delinquents, such as what was exercised by Peter upon Ananias and Sapphira, by the Apostle Paul on Elymas the sorcerer, the incestuous person, and Hymenaeus and Philetus, and which still continued with him; it was ready at hand, he could exercise it whenever he pleased, he only waited a proper time:

when your obedience is fulfilled: till they were thoroughly reformed from the several abuses, both in doctrine and practice, they had fallen into, and were brought into a better order and decorum, and appeared to have been in all things obedient to the directions he had given; being unwilling, as yet, to use the awful authority he had from Christ, lest any of the dear children of God, who were capable of being restored by gentler methods, should suffer with the refractory and incorrigible.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And having in a readiness ... - I am ready to punish all disobedience, notwithstanding all that is said to the contrary; see the notes on 2 Corinthians 10:1-2. Clothed as I am with this power; aiming to subdue all things to Christ, though the weapons of my warfare are not carnal, and though I am modest or timid 2 Corinthians 10:1 when I am with you, I am prepared to take any measures of severity required by my apostolic office, in order that I may inflict deserved punishment on those who have violated the laws of Christ. The design of this is, to meet the objection of his enemies, that he would not dare to execute his threatenings.

When your obedience is fulfilled - Doddridge renders this: “now your obedience is fulfilled, and the sounder part of your church restored to due order and submission.” The idea seems to be, that Paul was ready to inflict discipline when the church had showed a readiness to obey his laws, and to do its own duty - delicately intimating that the reason why it was not done was the lack of entire promptness in the church itself, and that it could not be done on any offender as long as the church itself was not prepared to sustain him. The church was to discountenance the enemies of the Redeemer; to show an entire readiness to sustain the apostle, and to unite with him in the effort to maintain the discipline of Christ’s house.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Corinthians 10:6. And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience — I am ready, through this mighty armour of God, to punish those opposers of the doctrine of Christ, and the disobedience which has been produced by them.

When your obedience is fulfilled. — When you have in the fullest manner, discountenanced those men, and separated yourselves from their communion. The apostle was not in haste to pull up the tares, lest he should pull up the wheat also.

All the terms in these two verses are military. Allusion is made to a strongly fortifed city, where the enemy had made his last stand; entrenching himself about the walls; strengthening all his redoubts and ramparts; raising castles, towers, and various engines of defence and offence upon the walls; and neglecting nothing that might tend to render his strong hold impregnable. The army of God comes against the place and attacks it; the strong holds οχυροματα, all the fortified places, are carried. The imaginations, λογισμοι, engines, and whatever the imagination or skill of man could raise, are speedily taken and destroyed. Every high thing, παν υψωμα, all the castles and towers are sapped, thrown down and demolished; the walls are battered into breaches; and the besieging army, carrying every thing at the point of the sword, enter the city, storm and take the citadel. Every where defeated, the conquered submit, and are brought into captivity, αιχμαλωτιζοντες, are led away captives; and thus the whole government is destroyed.

It is easy to apply these things, as far as may be consistent with the apostle's design. The general sense I have given in the preceding notes.


 
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