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2 Corinthians 12:20

James Moffatt - New Testament

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder —

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So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

(whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another).

For Chloe's people inform me that you are quarrelling.

till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity — slanderers,

For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life — they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct —

let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

I warned you already, on my second visit, and I warn you now before I come, both you who sinned some time ago and the rest of you as well, that I will spare no one if I come back.

I am prepared to court-martial anyone who remains insubordinate, once your submission is complete.

I beg of you that when I do come I may not have to speak out and be peremptory; but my mind is made up to tackle certain people who have made up their minds that I move on the low level of the flesh.

I call God to witness against my soul, it was to spare you that I refrained from revisiting Corinth.

for God is a God not of disorder but of harmony. [Move 33b-36 to follow vs 40] As is the rule in all churches of the saints,

defamers, loathed by God, outrageous, haughty, boastful, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents,

but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness —

And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime!

I decided I would not pay you another painful visit.




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