2 Corinthians 12:20

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Summary

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:

I shall not

2 Corinthians 12:21

2 Corinthians 13:9

And that

Debates

Whisperings

Psalm 41:7

Proverbs 16:28

Romans 1:29

Swellings

2 Peter 2:18

Jude 1:16

General references

2 Corinthians 13:6

Galatians 5:15

Bible References

I shall not

Lest, when I again come, my God should humble me in regard to you, - and I should grieve over many who had before sinned, and not repented of the impurity, and fornication, and wantonness which they had committed.

For we rejoice - whensoever, we, are weak, and, ye, are, strong. This, also we pray for - your restoration: -

And that

But, I, call upon God, as a witness, against my own soul, - that, to spare you, not yet, have I come unto Corinth:

For I have determined, unto myself, this - not, again, in grief, to come unto you.

I entreat, however, that, when present, I may not be bold with the assurance wherewith I think to be daring against some who account of us as though, according to flesh, we were walking, -

I have said beforehand, and do say beforehand, - as present the second time, although now absent, unto them who before sinned, and unto all the rest, - that, if I come again, I will not spare.

But, as though I were not coming unto you, some are puffed up!

For, I, indeed, - being absent in the body, but present in the spirit, have already judged, as present, him who, thus, this thing hath perpetrated: -

Debates

For it hath been signified unto me, concerning you, my brethren, - by them who are of the household of Chloe, - that there are strifes among you,

For ye are yet fleshly. For, whereas there are, among you, jealousy and strife, are ye not, fleshly, and, after the manner of men, walking?

But, these things, brethren, have I transferred unto myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that, in us, ye might learn the lesson - Not beyond the things that are written -- ! that ye do not puff yourselves up, individually, for this one against that.

Already, indeed, it is an utter defeat for you, that ye are having, law-suits, one with another. Wherefore are ye not rather taking wrong? Wherefore are ye not rather suffering yourselves to be defrauded?

But, if anyone thinketh to be contentious, we, have no such custom, - nor yet the assemblies of God.

Or, from you, did the word of God come forth? Or, unto you alone, did it extend?

If, however, one another, ye bite and devour, take heed lest, by one another, ye be consumed!

All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness;

But, if, bitter jealousy, ye have, and rivalry, in your hearts; be not boasting and showing yourselves false against the truth!

Whence wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence - due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members?

Putting away, therefore, all vice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envyings and all detractions,

Whisperings

Together - against me, do all who hate me whisper among themselves, Against me, devise they hurt for me.

A perverse man, sendeth forth strife, and, a tattler, separateth intimate friends.

Filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, baseness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil disposition,

Swellings

For, great swelling words of vanity, uttering, they entice with carnal covetings - in wanton ways - them who are, well-nigh, escaping from the men who, in error, have their behaviour;

These, are murmurers, complainers, according to their covetings, going on, - and, their mouth, speaketh great swelling words, - holding persons in admiration, for profit's sake.

General references

I hope, however, that ye shall come to know, that, we, fail not in the testing!

If, however, one another, ye bite and devour, take heed lest, by one another, ye be consumed!