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

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 should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced.

For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong; this also we pray for??our perfection.

And that

But I invoke God as a witness upon my soul, that, as sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth.

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

but I pray that, when present, I may not show courage with the confidence with which I purpose to be bold against some who reckon us as walking according to the flesh.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as if present at the second time, and, being now absent, I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all the rest; that, if I come again, I will not spare;

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you;

For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this;

Debates

For it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other.

Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

But, if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

Or from you did the word of God go forth? Or did it come to you alone?

But, if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed by one another.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling, be put away from you, with all wickedness;

But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Whisperings

having become filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Swellings

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;

These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.

General references

But I hope that ye shall know, that we are not rejected.

But, if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed by one another.