2 Corinthians 12:20

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:1

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

Galatians 5:15

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

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.

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,

Jude 1:16

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

Proverbs 16:28

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

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.

Galatians 5:26

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

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 10:6

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

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 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.

1 Corinthians 14:33

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

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 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 2:1

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

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.