2 Corinthians 12:20 - Revised Standard Version

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For I am fearful that somehow or other I may come and find you not as I desire to find you, and that you may find me too not as you want to find me–that perhaps there may be factions (quarreling), jealousy, temper (wrath, intrigues, rivalry, divided loyalties), selfishness, whispering, gossip, arrogance (self-assertion), and disorder among you.

American Standard Version (1901)

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

Common English Bible

I’m afraid that maybe when I come you will be different from the way I want you to be, and that I’ll be different from the way you want me to be. I’m afraid that there might be fighting, obsession, losing your temper, competitive opposition, backstabbing, gossip, conceit, and disorderly conduct.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Yet I fear, lest perhaps, when I have arrived, I might not find you such as I would want, and I might be found by you, such as you would not want. For perhaps there may be among you: contention, envy, animosity, dissension, detraction, whispering, self-exaltation, and rebellion.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For I fear lest perhaps when I come I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

2 Corinthians 12:20 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 41:7

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

Proverbs 16:28

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

Romans 1:29

They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips,

Romans 1:30

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

Romans 2:8

but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brethren.

1 Corinthians 14:33

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 10:2

I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of acting in worldly fashion.

2 Corinthians 10:6

being 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 I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned before and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness which they have practiced.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I warned those who sinned before 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 spare them—

2 Corinthians 2:1

For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit.

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 have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, 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

So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.