2 Corinthians 12:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and you may not find me to be what you want. Perhaps there will be quarrelling,  jealousy,  angry outbursts, selfish ambitions,  slander,  gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For I am fearful that somehow or other I may come and find you not as I desire to find you, and that you may find me too not as you want to find me–that perhaps there may be factions (quarreling), jealousy, temper (wrath, intrigues, rivalry, divided loyalties), selfishness, whispering, gossip, arrogance (self-assertion), and disorder among you.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

Common English Bible

²⁰ I’m afraid that maybe when I come you will be different from the way I want you to be, and that I’ll be different from the way you want me to be. I’m afraid that there might be fighting, obsession, losing your temper, competitive opposition, backstabbing, gossip, conceit, and disorderly conduct.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Yet I fear, lest perhaps, when I have arrived, I might not find you such as I would want, and I might be found by you, such as you would not want. For perhaps there may be among you: contention, envy, animosity, dissension, detraction, whispering, self-exaltation, and rebellion.

2 Corinthians 12:20 Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

A contrary person spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

Romans 1:29

They are filled with all unrighteousness,  evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful,  inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Romans 2:8

but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking  and disobey the truth  while obeying unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers and sisters, by members of Chloe’s people, that there is rivalry  among you.

1 Corinthians 14:33

since God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief  and remove from your congregation the one who did this?

2 Corinthians 1:23

I call on God as a witness,  on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 10:2

I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are living according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 10:6

And we are ready to punish any disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear that when I come my God will again  humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented  of the moral impurity, sexual immorality,  and sensuality  they practised.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I gave a warning when I was present the second time, and now I give a warning  while I am absent to those who sinned before and to all the rest: If I come again, I will not be lenient,

2 Corinthians 2:1

In fact, I made up my mind about this: I would not come to you on another painful visit.

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour  one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

James 4:11

Don’t criticise one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer  defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

1 Peter 2:1

Therefore, rid yourselves of  all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering boastful, empty words,  they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped  from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires;  their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering  people for their own advantage.