2 Corinthians 12:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

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

Transliteration

Mē, again having elthonta, me tapeinōsei the Theos of me before you, and I penthēsō many of the proēmartēkotōn, and not having metanoēsantōn over the akatharsia and porneia and aselgeia which they epraxan.

Grammar Details

• *Mē*: negative particle - lest/not
• *elthonta*: aorist participle, active, accusative, masculine, singular - having come
• *tapeinōsei*: future indicative, active, 3rd singular - will humble
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *penthēsō*: future indicative, active, 1st singular - I will mourn/lament
• *proēmartēkotōn*: perfect participle, active, genitive, masculine, plural - having sinned before
• *metanoēsantōn*: aorist participle, active, genitive, masculine, plural - having repented
• *akatharsia*: dative, feminine, singular - uncleanness/impurity
• *porneia*: dative, feminine, singular - sexual immorality/fornication
• *aselgeia*: dative, feminine, singular - sensuality/licentiousness
• *epraxan*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd plural - they did/practiced

Word Meanings

• *tapeinōsei*: will humble/will bring low/will make ashamed
• *penthēsō*: I will mourn/I will lament/I will grieve
• *proēmartēkotōn*: having sinned before/having previously sinned
• *metanoēsantōn*: having repented/having changed their mind
• *akatharsia*: uncleanness/impurity/filthiness
• *porneia*: sexual immorality/fornication/prostitution
• *aselgeia*: sensuality/licentiousness/debauchery
• *epraxan*: they did/they practiced/they committed

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I have said before, and I say `it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,
• Gal 5:19 : 19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
• 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --
• 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers -- 10 and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world -- 11 and now, I did write to you not to keep company with `him', if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• 1 Cor 6:15-18 : 15 Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not! 16 have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.' 17 And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit; 18 flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
• 2 Cor 2:1-9 : 1 And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you, 2 for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me? 3 and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all, 4 for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you. 5 And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all; 6 sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that `is' by the more part, 7 so that, on the contrary, `it is' rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up; 8 wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him, 9 for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient. 10 And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven `it', because of you -- in the person of Christ -- `I forgive it,' 11 that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.
• 2 Cor 7:9-9 : 9 I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us; 10 for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death, 11 for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.
• 2 Cor 8:24 : 24 the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.
• 2 Cor 9:3-4 : 3 and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready, 4 lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.
• 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
• 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.
• Exod 32:31 : 31 And Moses turneth back unto Jehovah, and saith, `Oh this people hath sinned a great sin, that they make to themselves a god of gold;
• Deut 9:15 : 15 `And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands,
• Deut 9:25 : 25 `And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said -- to destroy you;
• 1 Sam 15:35 : 35 And Samuel hath not added to see Saul till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned for Saul, and Jehovah repented that He had caused Saul to reign over Israel.
• Ezra 9:3 : 3 And at my hearing this word, I have rent my garment and my upper robe, and pluck out of the hair of my head, and of my beard, and sit astonished,
• Ezra 10:1 : 1 And at Ezra's praying, and at his making confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there have been gathered unto him out of Israel an assembly very great -- men and women and children -- for the people have wept, multiplying weeping.
• Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!
• Jer 9:1 : 1 Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
• Jer 13:17 : 17 And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.
• Luke 9:41-42 : 41 And Jesus answering said, `O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring near hither thy son;' 42 and as he is yet coming near, the demon rent him, and tore `him' sore, and Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the youth, and gave him back to his father.
• Rom 9:2 : 2 that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --
• Rom 13:13 : 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
• 1 Thess 4:3-7 : 3 for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, 4 that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour, 5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God, 6 that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified, 7 for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;
• Heb 13:4 : 4 honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
• 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
• 2 Pet 2:10-14 : 10 and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of, 11 whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment; 12 and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed, 13 about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you, 14 having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,
• Jude 1:7 : 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before -- an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.
• Jude 1:23 : 23 and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part `is' in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'
• Rev 22:15 : 15 and without `are' the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.
• Rev 22:20 : 20 he saith -- who is testifying these things -- `Yes, I come quickly!' Amen! Yes, be coming, Lord Jesus!
• Eph 5:5-6 : 5 for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,
• Phil 3:18-19 : 18 for many walk of whom many times I told you -- and now also weeping tell -- the enemies of the cross of the Christ! 19 whose end `is' destruction, whose god `is' the belly, and whose glory `is' in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.