2 Corinthians 12:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Cross References

Psalm 41:7

All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Romans 1:29

They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,

Romans 2:8

while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For it has been made clear to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters.

1 Corinthians 14:33

for God is a God not of disorder but of peace), as in all the churches of the saints.

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 10:2

I ask that when I am present I need not show boldness by daring to oppose those who think we are acting according to human standards.

2 Corinthians 10:6

We are ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you and that I may have to mourn over many who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery that they have practiced.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I warned those who sinned previously and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not be lenient—

2 Corinthians 2:1

So I made up my mind not to make another visit that causes you grief.

Galatians 5:15

If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.

2 Peter 2:18

For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their lusts; their mouths utter bombastic nonsense, flattering people to their own advantage.