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2 Corinthians 12:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

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All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

For God is not a God whose ways are without order, but a God of peace; as in all the churches of the saints.

And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.

Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.

And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity;

But it was my decision for myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.




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