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.”
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
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.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
“Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”
“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”