2 Corinthians 12:20

Tree of Life Version

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I may find you not as I wish, or I may be found by you not as you wish—that there may be strife, envy, outbursts of anger, self-seeking disputes, lashon ha-ra , gossip, arrogance, unruly commotions.

Cross References

Psalm 41:7

And if someone of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely. He stores up evil in his heart, then he goes out and chatters.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person sows strife, and a gossip separates close friends.

Romans 1:29

They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips,

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents.

Romans 2:8

But to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—wrath and fury.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers and sisters, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are rivalries among you.

1 Corinthians 14:33

for God is not a God of confusion, but shalom. As in all the communities of the kedoshim,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are puffed up! Shouldn’t you have mourned instead, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call God as my witness—to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth again.

2 Corinthians 10:2

I beg of you that when I am present I won’t need to be bold with the courage I consider showing against some who judge us as walking in the flesh.

2 Corinthians 10:6

ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I will mourn for many of those who have sinned before and not repented of the impurity and sexual immorality and indecency which they committed.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I spoke a warning, when I was with you the second time. Though now I am away, I am again speaking a warning to those who have sinned before, as well as to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone—

2 Corinthians 2:1

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

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not destroyed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

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

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the Torah and judges the Torah. But if you judge the Torah, you are not a doer of the Torah, but a judge.

1 Peter 2:1

So get rid of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all lashon ha-ra .

2 Peter 2:18

For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These are bellyaching grumblers, following after their own desires. Their mouth speaks grandiose things, showing favoritism for the sake of gain.