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

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 come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong; and we desire this, your perfection.

And that

But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

But I determined this with myself, not to come again to you in sorrow;

and I desire that I may not be bold when present, with that confidence which I design to use against some who speak of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;

Some are puffed up as though I would not come to you;

For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as present him that has so done this,

Debates

For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?

I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against another.

Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why not rather be defrauded?

But if any one is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God.

Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you alone?

But if you bite and devour one another, see that you be not consumed one by another.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth.

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,

Whisperings

being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,

Swellings

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate desires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of persons for the sake of gain.

General references

But I hope you will know that we are not reprobates.

But if you bite and devour one another, see that you be not consumed one by another.