2 Coríntios 10:6

6 e estando prontos para vingar toda desobediência, quando for cumprida a vossa obediência.

2 Coríntios 10:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 10:6

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience
Not with the temporal sword, as the civil magistrate, but with the spiritual one; meaning either censures and excommunication, which a faithful minister of the Gospel, with the suffrage of the church, has at hand, and a power to make use of, for the reclaiming of disobedient persons; or rather that extraordinary power which was peculiar to the apostles, of inflicting punishments on delinquents, such as what was exercised by Peter upon Ananias and Sapphira, by the Apostle Paul on Elymas the sorcerer, the incestuous person, and Hymenaeus and Philetus, and which still continued with him; it was ready at hand, he could exercise it whenever he pleased, he only waited a proper time:

when your obedience is fulfilled:
till they were thoroughly reformed from the several abuses, both in doctrine and practice, they had fallen into, and were brought into a better order and decorum, and appeared to have been in all things obedient to the directions he had given; being unwilling, as yet, to use the awful authority he had from Christ, lest any of the dear children of God, who were capable of being restored by gentler methods, should suffer with the refractory and incorrigible.

2 Coríntios 10:6 In-Context

4 pois as armas da nossa milícia não são carnais, mas poderosas em Deus, para demolição de fortalezas;

5 derribando raciocínios e todo baluarte que se ergue contra o conhecimento de Deus, e levando cativo todo pensamento � obediência a Cristo;

6 e estando prontos para vingar toda desobediência, quando for cumprida a vossa obediência.

7 Olhais para as coisas segundo a aparência. Se alguém confia de si mesmo que é de Cristo, pense outra vez isto consigo, que, assim como ele é de Cristo, também nós o somos.

8 Pois, ainda que eu me glorie um tanto mais da nossa autoridade, a qual o Senhor nos deu para edificação, e não para vossa destruição, não me envergonharei;