2 Corinthians 12:20

Modern English Version

For I fear that when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish. I fear there are debates, envying, wrath, strife, backbiting, whispering, arrogance, and disorder.

Cross References

Psalm 41:7

All who hate me whisper together against me; against me they devise my hurt.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Romans 1:29

They were filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and craftiness. They are gossips,

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, proud, boastful, inventors of evil things, and disobedient toward parents,

Romans 2:8

But for those who are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be indignation and wrath.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

1 Corinthians 14:33

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

1 Corinthians 5:2

But you are arrogant. Instead you should have mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.

2 Corinthians 1:23

Moreover I call God as a witness upon my soul, that it is to spare you that I have not yet gone to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 10:2

I beg you that when I am present, I might not have to be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 10:6

and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 12:21

And I fear that when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already, who have not repented of impurity, sexual immorality, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time. And being absent now, I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the others, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone,

2 Corinthians 2:1

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not be conceited, provoking one another and envying one another.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law 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 put away all wickedness, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking.

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak arrogant words of vanity, they entice by the lusts of the flesh and by depravity those who barely escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These men are grumblers, complainers, who walk after their own lusts. Their mouths speak arrogant words, and they flatter others to gain profit.