2 Corintios 13:2

2 Ya puse sobre aviso a los que andaban en pecado cuando estuve ahí durante mi segunda visita. Ahora les advierto de nuevo a ellos y a todos los demás, tal como lo hice antes, que la próxima vez no tendré compasión de ellos.

2 Corintios 13:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:2

I told you before, and foretell you as if I were present a
second time
He means, that he had in his former epistle faithfully told them of their evils, and admonished them for them; and now he sends to them a second time before his coming, and again admonishes them, as if he was upon the spot with them; so that they had, as before, three witnesses, also a first and second admonition; which, should they be without success, he must proceed further:

and being absent now, I write to them which heretofore have sinned;
before he wrote his first epistle, of which he had information, and had faithfully reproved and admonished them; see ( 2 Corinthians 12:21 ) .

And to all other;
that might since be drawn into a compliance with sinful practices, through their example; or as the Arabic version renders it, "to the rest of the congregation"; who would be witnesses for him, and against them, that he had admonished them a first, and a second time: and by his present writing declares,

that if I come again;
for, not knowing what might fall out to prevent him, though he was bent upon coming, and ready for it, nor what was the will of God about it, he does not choose to be positive in the matter; and therefore writes conditionally, and with a guard, and no doubt with a submission to the divine will:

I will not spare;
this was the reason why as yet he had not been at Corinth, because he was willing to spare them; see ( 2 Corinthians 1:23 ) being loath to come to severities, if gentler methods would take effect; but now having used all proper means, he is at a point, aud determined not to spare, but to use his apostolical rod, or that power which the Lord had given him in an extraordinary way, as an extraordinary officer, to punish incorrigible offenders, in such manner as the incestuous person, and Hymenaeus and Philetus had been used by him.

2 Corintios 13:2 In-Context

1 Consejos finales de Pablo
Esta es la tercera vez que los visito, (y como dicen las Escrituras: «Los hechos de cada caso deben ser establecidos por el testimonio de dos o tres testigos»
).

2 Ya puse sobre aviso a los que andaban en pecado cuando estuve ahí durante mi segunda visita. Ahora les advierto de nuevo a ellos y a todos los demás, tal como lo hice antes, que la próxima vez no tendré compasión de ellos.

3 Les daré todas las pruebas que quieran de que Cristo habla por medio de mí. Cristo no es débil cuando trata con ustedes; es poderoso entre ustedes.

4 Aunque fue crucificado en debilidad, ahora vive por el poder de Dios. Nosotros también somos débiles, al igual que Cristo lo fue, pero cuando tratemos con ustedes, estaremos vivos con él y tendremos el poder de Dios.

5 Examínense para saber si su fe es genuina. Pruébense a sí mismos. Sin duda saben que Jesucristo está entre ustedes;
de no ser así, ustedes han reprobado el examen de la fe genuina.