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2 Corinthians 12:21

My God will humiliate me. Paul is thinking of that painful second visit (2 Corinthians 2:1). And I shall weep. It will bring him great sorrow to be forced to punish those who have failed to turn away from their sins and reform!!! Immoral. Here it means any kind of unholy living. Sexual sins. These were standard practice in the Gentile world. It includes everything outside the marriage relationship, such as adultery, homosexuality, etc. See note on Matthew 19:9. Lustful deeds. Debauchery is the technical term. Compare 1 Peter 4:2-4 and notes.

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See also 2 Corinthians 12:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Corinthians 12:21. _LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN_] And even after all that has been done for you, I fear that when I _do come_-when I pay you my _second_ visit, _my God will humble me_-will permit...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN, MY GOD WILL HUMBLE ME ... - Lest I should be compelled to inflict punishment on those whom I suppose to have been converted under my ministry. I had rejoiced in them as tr...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_ 2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7) 3. The Marks of His Apos...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    RETROSPECT OF THE BOASTING. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt seizes him as when he began (2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corin...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    You have been thinking for a long time that it is to you that we have been making our defence. It is before God, in Christ, that we speak. All that we have said, beloved, is for your upbuilding, for I...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HUMBLE. Greek. _tapeinoo._ See 2 Corinthians 11:7. AMONG. before. Greek. _pros._ App-104. BEWAIL. mourn for. WHICH. of those who. SINNED ALREADY. sinned before. Greek. _proarnartano._ Only here and...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _among you_ Or, with some interpreters, _in reference to_you. The literal translation is TO you. _which have sinned already_ Literally, those who have sinned BEFORE, i.e. either (1) before their conve...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἘΛΘΌΝΤΟΣ ΜΟΥ (אABFGP 39, 93) rather than ἐλθόντα με (א3DKL); and perhaps also ΤΑΠΕΙΝΏΣΗΙ ΜΕ (אA) rather than ταπεινώσει με (BDFGP) or ταπεινώσῃ (K) or ταπεινώσει (D3L). But _both_ ἐλθόντα με and ταπει...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    19–21. He is not on his defence before the Corinthians: to God alone is he responsible. But all he says is for the good of the Corinthians, that a thorough reformation may take place before he comes....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ PAUL'S CONCERN FOR CORINTH 2 CORINTHIANS 12:14-21:_ Paul planned a third visit to Corinth. Even then he did not want to be a burden to them. He said, "What I really want is you, and not what you hav...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΆΛΙΝ (G3825) снова. Это слово может относиться либо к _part._, либо к основному гл. (Barrett; Hughes), ΈΛΘΌΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить. _Gen. abs._, "когда я приду" ...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Weakness in Behavior (2 Corinthians 12:19-21) 19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we ha...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's Intended Visit Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 12:14-21. Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but y...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    14 What a fund of fatherly affection is revealed in his protest, "I am not seeking _ yours _ but _ you_!" And it must have humbled them to think of their own lack of care and consideration. They deser...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:21 to (c-8) Or 'amongst you.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HIS PRIVILEGES AND TRIALS The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses, and especially on his bodily infir...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WHEN I COME AGAIN] The 'again' should be joined with the next clause, 'God will again humble me.' He had been humbled at his last visit—the visit 'in heaviness' referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:1....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND LEST WHEN I COME AGAIN... — The words do not imply more than one previous visit (Acts 18:1), but it can scarcely be said that they exclude the supposition of another. (See Note on 2 Corinthians 13...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into which this passage may be divided: (1) 2 Corinthians 12:...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    μὴ πάλιν ἐλθόντος μου κ. τ. λ.: _lest when I come, my God should humble me again before you, sc._, because of the scanty fruit of his preaching (as had been the case on his _second_ visit), _and I sho...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    HIS GLORYING HAS NOT BEEN BY WAY OF APOLOGY, BUT TO EDIFY THEM UNTO REPENTANCE....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “I SEEK NOT YOURS, BUT YOU” 2 Corinthians 12:11 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean Stanley, and Paul returns to the point whence he diverged at...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glory...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    VERSE 21 Paul did not want to find such evil since he would be humiliated and forced to weep over those who refused to turn from their evil ways. Repentance would cause them to change their minds and...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    He puts them in mind to be all of them reformed, to lay aside animosities, dissensions, swellings, [3] proceeding from pride, uncleanness, fornication, &c. which indeed will be a humiliation and troub...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    21._Lest, when I come, my God should humble me _His abasement was reckoned to him as a fault. The blame of it he throws back upon the Corinthians, who, when they should have honored his Apostleship, l...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND LEST WHEN I COME AGAIN,.... Another thing which he feared would be the case when he came again to them, that he himself should be afflicted and distressed, seeing them in a disorderly and dissolut...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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 wh...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves_ That I say all this to insinuate myself into your esteem for any secular ends? _We speak before God in Christ_ As if he had said, I have a higher end in view...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    Among the numerous trials which affectionate and successful ministers of Christ are called to encounter, the disappointment of their hopes with regard to many who for a time promised well, is by no me...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Paul hopes for an edifying repentance on the part of the Corinthians:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 T...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    From hence it appeareth, that this church of Corinth, though it had many in it, without doubt, who were true and sincere Christians, yet had also many it which were otherwise; yea, many that were scan...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    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...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Tertullian On Modesty For in saying, toward the end of the Epistle, "Lest, when I shall have come, God humble me, and I bewail many of those who have formerly sinned, and have not repented of the imp...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Corinthians 12:21 lest G3361 come G2064 (G5631) again G3825 my G3450 God G2316 humble G5013 (G5661)

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HIS FINAL WAKE UP CALL (2 CORINTHIANS 12:19) ‘You think all this time that we are excusing ourselves to you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.' D...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Corinthians 12:21. LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN, MY GOD SHOULD HUMBLE ME BEFORE YOU. So bound up was his comfort in this and all his churches with their spiritual prosperity, that the prospect of finding...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WHEN I COME AGAIN (παλιν ελθοντος μου). Genitive absolute. Paul assumes it as true.LEST MY GOD HUMBLE ME (μη ταπεινωση με ο θεος μου). Negative final clause (μη and first aorist active subjunctive...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    SINNED SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan. CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian overbalance all he is called upon to be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:21 GOD MAY HUMBLE Paul BEFORE the Corinthians by using Paul as an instrument of their judgment. This will mean Paul MAY HAVE TO MOURN o

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he describes his being carried up into the third heaven. II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ (_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.) 2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2), Or...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 6:9;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Among you [π ρ ο ς υ μ α ς]. Better, as Rev., before. In my relation to you. Shall bewail [π ε ν θ η σ ω]. Lament with a true pastor's sorrow over the sin. Many [π ο λ λ ο υ ς]. With special referen...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Who had sinned before — My last coming to Corinth. Uncleanness — Of married persons. Lasciviousness — Against nature....

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