21And 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.
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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:
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: …
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)In these verses the apostle addresses himself to the Corinthians two ways:— I. He blames them for what was faulty in them; namely, that they had not stood up in his defence as they ought to have done, and so made it the more needful for him to insist so much on his own vindication. They in manner compelled him to commend himself, who ought to have been commended of them 2 Cor. 12:11. And had they,…
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