2 Corinthians 12:20

God's Word

I’m afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I’m afraid that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

Cross References

Psalm 41:7

Everyone who hates me whispers about me. They think evil things about me and say,

Proverbs 16:28

A devious person spreads quarrels. A gossip separates the closest of friends.

Romans 1:29

Their lives are filled with all kinds of sexual sins, wickedness, and greed. They are mean. They are filled with envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,

Romans 1:30

slanderers, haters of God, haughty, arrogant, and boastful. They think up new ways to be cruel. They don’t obey their parents,

Romans 2:8

anger and fury on those who, in selfish pride, refuse to believe the truth and who follow what is wrong.

1 Corinthians 1:11

Brothers and sisters, some people from Chloe’s family have made it clear to me that you are quarreling among yourselves.

1 Corinthians 14:33

God is not a God of disorder but a God of peace. As in all the churches of God’s holy people,

1 Corinthians 5:2

You’re being arrogant when you should have been more upset about this. If you had been upset, the man who did this would have been removed from among you.

2 Corinthians 1:23

I appeal to God as a witness on my behalf, that I stayed away from Corinth because I wanted to spare you.

2 Corinthians 10:2

I beg you that when I am with you I won’t have to deal forcefully with you. I expect I will have to because some people think that we are only guided by human motives.

2 Corinthians 10:6

We are ready to punish every act of disobedience when you have become completely obedient.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I’m afraid that when I come to you again, my God may humble me. I may have to grieve over many who formerly led sinful lives and have not changed the way they think and act about the perversion, sexual sins, and promiscuity in which they have been involved.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I already warned you when I was with you the second time, and even though I’m not there now, I’m warning you again. When I visit you again, I won’t spare you. That goes for all those who formerly led sinful lives as well as for all the others.

2 Corinthians 2:1

I decided not to visit you again while I was distressed.

Galatians 5:15

But if you criticize and attack each other, be careful that you don’t destroy each other.

Galatians 5:26

We can’t allow ourselves to act arrogantly and to provoke or envy each other.

James 4:11

Brothers and sisters, stop slandering each other. Those who slander and judge other believers slander and judge God’s laws. If you judge God’s teachings, you are no longer following them. Instead, you are judging them.

1 Peter 2:1

So get rid of every kind of evil, every kind of deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

2 Peter 2:18

They arrogantly use nonsense to seduce people by appealing to their sexual desires, especially to sexual freedom. They seduce people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These people complain, find fault, follow their own desires, say arrogant things, and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.