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2 Corinthians 12:21

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.

KJV

μὴ πάλιν ἐλθόντος μου ταπεινώσει με ὁ θεός μου πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ πενθήσω πολλοὺς τῶν προημαρτηκότων καὶ μὴ μετανοησάντων ἐπὶ τῇ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ καὶ πορνείᾳ καὶ ἀσελγείᾳ ᾗ ἔπραξαν.

Greek NT

ne iterum cum venero, humiliet me Deus apud vos, et lugeam multos ex iis qui ante peccaverunt, et non egerunt pœnitentiam super immunditia, et fornicatione, et impudicitia, quam gesserunt.

Vulgate

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.

ASV

Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

20 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μετανοέω
metanoeo
verb · 34×
πάλιν
palin
adverb · 141×
πενθέω
pentheo
verb · 10×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
πορνεία
porneia
noun · 25×
πράσσω
prasso
verb · 39×
προαμαρτάνω
proamartano
verb · 2×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ταπεινόω
tapeinoo
verb · 14×
ἀκαθαρσία
akatharsia
noun · 10×
ἀσέλγεια
aselgeia
noun · 10×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἐλθόντος μου | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐλθόντος μου | RP: ἐλθόντα με
  • ἐλθόντος μουSBLGNT
  • ἐλθόντος μουWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐλθόντα μεRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ταπεινώσῃ | WH/NIV: ταπεινώσῃ | Treg/RP: ταπεινώσει
  • ταπεινώσῃSBLGNT
  • ταπεινώσῃWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ταπεινώσειTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
trivial
SBLGNT: με | WH/Treg/NIV: με
  • μεSBLGNT
  • μεWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. But what means, With me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of man's day? (ἡμέρας) I judge myself unworthy, says he, of being judged by you. And why say I, by you? I will add, by (καὶ τὸ [τοῦ]) any one else. Howbeit, let no one condemn Paul of arrogance; t…
Chapter 9.—Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life of the Righteous. But so far as regards this question of mental perturbations, we have answered these philosophers in the ninth book687687 C. 4, 5. of this work, showing that it is rather a verbal than a real dispute, and that they seek contention rather than truth. Among ourselves, accordi…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 5:1 — It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
  • 1Cor 5:1 — It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
  • 1Cor 5:2 — And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
  • 1Cor 5:9 — I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
  • 1Cor 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
  • 1John 3:4 — Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
  • 1Pet 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
  • 1Pet 4:3 — For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
  • 2Cor 13:2 — I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare
  • Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  • Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  • Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
  • Ezek 9:4 — And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done
  • Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  • Jer 13:27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it
  • Matt 22:10 — So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
  • Phil 4:19 — But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 119:53 — Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
  • Ps 119:59 — I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
  • Rev 9:20 — And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, a
  • Rev 9:21 — Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.