2 Corinthians 10 · Verse 6

2 Corinthians 10:6

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 10:6, King James Version

2 Corinthians 10:6 in other translations

BSBAnd we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.
WEBand being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
ASVand being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
YLTand being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
DARBYand having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.
BBEBeing ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.
WebsterAnd having in a readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

What does 2 Corinthians 10:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. Translate, "Having ourselves (that is, being) in readiness to exact punishment for all disobedience," &c. We have this in store for the disobedient: it will be brought into action in due time. when your obedience, &c.--He charitably assumes that most of the Corinthian Church will act obediently; therefore he says "YOUR obedience." But perhaps some will act otherwise; in order, therefore, to give all an opportunity of joining the obedient, he will not prematurely exact punishment, but wait until the full number of those gathered out to Christ has been "completed," and the remainder have been proved incorrigible. He had acted already so at Corinth (Ac 18:6-11; compare Ex 32:34; Mt 13:28-30).

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 6. And having in a readiness, etc. I am ready to punish all disobedience, notwithstanding all that is said to the contrary. 2Cor 10:1, 2Cor 10:2.

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 2Cor 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 shown a readiness to obey his laws, and to do its own duty--delicately intimating that the reason why it was not done was the want 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.

(k) "obedience is fulfilled" 2Cor 7:15

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience - I am ready, through this mighty armor 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 fortified 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 defense and offense 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 ὑψωμα, 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Corinthians 10:1-6

While others thought meanly, and spake scornfully of the apostle, he had low thoughts, and spake humbly of himself. We should be aware of our own infirmities, and think humbly of ourselves, even when men reproach us. The work of the ministry is a spiritual warfare with spiritual enemies, and for spiritual purposes. Outward force is not the method of the gospel, but strong persuasions, by the power of truth and the…

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2 Corinthians 10:6 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

καὶkaiandG2532
ἐνeninG1722
ἑτοίμῳhetoimōreadinessG2092
ἔχοντεςechonteshavingG2192
ἐκδικῆσαιekdikēsaito avengeG1556
πᾶσανpasanallG3956
παρακοήν,parakoēndisobedience,G3876
ὅτανhotanwhenG3752
πληρωθῇplērōthēamay have been fulfilledG4137
ὑμῶνhumōnyourG4771
ἡhē<the>G3588
ὑπακοή.¶hupakoēobedience.G5218

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Corinthians 10:6

  • 2 Corinthians 2:9

    For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

  • Numbers 16:26-30

    And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children. And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me. …

  • 2 Corinthians 7:15

    And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

  • 2 Corinthians 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:

  • 1 Corinthians 5:3-5

    For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  • Acts 5:3-11

    But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. …

  • 2 Corinthians 13:10

    Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

  • Acts 13:10-11

    And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

  • 3 John 1:10

    Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

  • 1 Timothy 1:20

    Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

  • 1 Corinthians 4:21

    What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

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in.
13:2,10; Nu 16:26-30; Ac 5:3-11; 13:10,11; 1Co 4:21; 5:3-5; 1Ti 1:20
3Jo 1:10
when.
2:9; 7:15

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Context

  • 2 Corinthians 10:5

    Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

  • 2 Corinthians 10:6

    And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

  • 2 Corinthians 10:7

    Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.

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2 Corinthians 10:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y estando prestos para castigar toda desobediencia, cuando vuestra obediencia fuere cumplida.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et étant prêts à tirer vengeance de toute désobéissance, après que votre obéissance aura été rendue complète.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und bereit stehen, allen Ungehorsam zu rächen, wenn euer Gehorsam erfüllt sein wird.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et in promptu habentes ulcisci omnem inobedientiam, cum impleta fuerit vestra obedientia.