2Cor.12.20

2 Corinthians 12:20

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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:

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

Cross References

Romans 1:29

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Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

God’s Wrath against Sin

Romans 1:30

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Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

God’s Wrath against Sin

Romans 2:8

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But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

God’s Righteous Judgment

1 Corinthians 1:11

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For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Unity in the Church

1 Corinthians 3:3

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For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

God’s Fellow Workers

1 Corinthians 4:6

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And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Servants of Christ

1 Corinthians 4:18

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Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

Paul’s Fatherly Warning

1 Corinthians 4:21

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What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

Paul’s Fatherly Warning

1 Corinthians 5:2

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And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

Immorality Rebuked

1 Corinthians 11:19

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For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper

1 Corinthians 14:33

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For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Orderly Worship

2 Corinthians 2:1

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But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

Reaffirm Your Love

Galatians 5:20

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Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Walking by the Spirit

James 3:14

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

The Wisdom from Above

James 3:16

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For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

The Wisdom from Above

James 4:11

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Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Drawing Near to God

1 Peter 2:1

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Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

2 Corinthians 12:20

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:

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

Cross References

God’s Wrath against Sin

God’s Wrath against Sin

God’s Righteous Judgment

Unity in the Church

God’s Fellow Workers

Servants of Christ

Paul’s Fatherly Warning

Paul’s Fatherly Warning

Immorality Rebuked

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper

Orderly Worship

Reaffirm Your Love

Walking by the Spirit

The Wisdom from Above

The Wisdom from Above

Drawing Near to God

The Living Stone and Chosen People

As Newborn Babes