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 the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced.

We are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong. We also pray that you be readjusted.

And that

But I call God for a witness against me. To spare you I did not come to Corinth.

I decided this for myself that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

I told you in advance as if I were present the second time. Being absent now I write to those who have sinned and to all others. If I come again I will not spare you.

Now some have become proud (arrogant), thinking that I would not come to you.

I am not there with you in person. But I am with you in spirit. I have already judged the man who did this.

Debates

The house of Chloe told me, my brothers, that there are disputes among you.

You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men?

Brothers I have applied these things to myself and to Apollos for your sakes. That way you might learn the value of the saying: Do not go beyond the things written. None of you should be arrogant (self-important) against one another.

It is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not let yourself be wronged? Why not let your selves be defrauded (cheated)?

If anyone is contentious about this we have no other practice, neither do the congregations of God.

Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached?

But if you continue to bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and screaming, and abusive speech, be put away (removed) (expiated) from you, along with all malice.

If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk.

Whisperings

All who hate me whisper together (gossip) against me; against me they devise my hurt, saying:

A perverse man sows discord. A whisperer separates good friends.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

Swellings

For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

These murmur, complain, and walk after their lusts, they speak arrogantly, flattering people to gain advantage.

General references

I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

But if you continue to bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.