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 again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.

And that

Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

So I made up my own mind not to pay you another painful visit.

now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that (I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards.

I said before when I was present the second time and now, though absent, I say again to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone,

Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

Debates

For members of Chloe's household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn "not to go beyond what is written," so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Whisperings

All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.

A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Swellings

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

General references

And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test!

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.