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2 Corinthians 12:20

The Text-Critical English New Testament

For I fear that when I come I may not find you as I wish, and that you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarrels, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambitions, insults, words of gossip, puffed up behaviors, and disorderly actions.

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They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, evil, covetousness, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and maliciousness. They are gossips,

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

but for those who are self-seeking and obey unrighteousness instead of the truth, there will be anger and wrath.

For it has been disclosed to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe's household, that there are quarrels among you.

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace; this is true in all the churches of the saints.

And you are puffed up! You should have mourned instead and removed the man who did this from among you.

But I call upon God as a witness against me, that the reason I did not return to Corinth was to spare you.

I ask that when I am present I need not show boldness by daring to oppose those who think that we walk according to the flesh.

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

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

I gave a warning when I was present the second time, and now I am giving this written warning while absent: If I come again I will not spare those who sinned previously or any of the others,

So I made up my mind that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

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

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

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. Now if yoʋ judge the law, yoʋ are not a doer of the law but a judge.

So put aside all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

For they speak bombastic words of nonsense, and with sensual desires of the flesh they entice people who have truly escaped from others who live in error.

These men are grumblers and complainers, walking according to their own lusts. They speak bombastic words with their mouths, admiring people for their own advantage.




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