2 Corinthians 12:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

I am afraid that when I come my God may again humble me before you and that I may have to grieve over many who formerly lived in sin and have not repented of their impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity that they once practiced.

We are glad when we are weak and you are strong. That is what we are praying for your maturity.

And that

I call upon God as a witness on my behalf that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

Now I decided not to pay you another painful visit.

I beg you that when I come I will not need to be courageous by daring to oppose some people who think that we are living according to the flesh.

I have already warned those who sinned previously and all the rest. Although I am absent now, I am warning them as I did on my second visit: If I come back, I will not spare you,

Some of you have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to evaluate you.

Even though I am away from you physically, I am with you in spirit. I have already passed judgment on the man who did this, as though I were present with you.

Debates

My brothers, some members of Chloe's family have made it clear to me that there are quarrels among you.

That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

Brothers, I have applied all this to Apollos and myself for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what the Scriptures say. Then you will stop boasting about one person at the expense of another.

The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather just accept the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we do not have any custom like this, nor do any of God's churches.

Did God's word originate with you? Are you the only ones it has reached?

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred.

But if you have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop boasting and slandering the truth.

Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

Whisperings

As for all who hate me, they whisper together against me; they desire to do me harm.

A deceitful man stirs dissension, and anyone who gossips separates friends.

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,

Swellings

By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.

General references

I hope you will realize that we haven't failed our test.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other.