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For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.King James Bible
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:American Standard Version
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;Young's Literal Translation
for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,2 Corinthians 12:20 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleI fear, lest, when I come - I think the present time is used here for the past; the apostle seems most evidently to be giving them the reason why he had not come to them according to his former purposes, and why he sent Titus and his companion. He was afraid to come at that time lest he should have found them perverted from the right way, and he be obliged to make use of his apostolical rod, and punish the offenders; but, feeling towards them the heart of a tender father, he was unwilling to use the rod; and sent the first epistle to them, and the messengers above mentioned, being reluctant to go himself till he had satisfactory evidence that their divisions were ended, and that they had repented for and put away the evils that they had committed; and that he should not be obliged to bewail them who had sinned so abominably, and had not repented for their crimes. If this verse be understood in this way, all difficulty will vanish; otherwise, what is here said does seem to contradict what is said, 2 Corinthians 7:6, 2 Corinthians 7:16, etc.; as well as many things both in the eighth and ninth chapters. Debates, envyings - From these different expressions, which are too plain to need interpretation, we see what a distracted and divided state the Church at Corinth must have been in. Brotherly love and charity seem to have been driven out of this once heavenly assembly. These debates, etc., are precisely the opposites to that love which the apostle recommends and explains by its different properties in the 13th chapter of his first epistle. Mr. Wakefield translates the original thus: strifes, rivalries, passions, provocations, slanders, whisperings, swellings, quarrels. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I shall not. 2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn many which have sinned already... 2 Corinthians 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. and that. 2 Corinthians 1:23,24 Moreover I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth... 2 Corinthians 2:1-3 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness... 2 Corinthians 10:2,6,8,9 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, with which I think to be bold against some... 2 Corinthians 13:2,10 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time... 1 Corinthians 4:18-21 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you... 1 Corinthians 5:3-5 For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present... debates. 1 Corinthians 1:11 For it has been declared to me of you, my brothers, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 1 Corinthians 3:3,4 For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men... 1 Corinthians 4:6-8,18 And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes... 1 Corinthians 6:7,8 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong... 1 Corinthians 11:16-19 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God... 1 Corinthians 14:36,37 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it to you only... Galatians 5:15,19-21 But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another... Galatians 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Ephesians 4:31,32 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice... James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth... James 4:1-5 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members... 1 Peter 2:1 Why laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings, whisperings. Psalm 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. Proverbs 16:28 A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends. Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder... swellings. 2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness... Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words... 2 Corinthians 12:20 Parallel Commentaries
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Romans 1:29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
Romans 1:30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
Romans 2:8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
1 Corinthians 1:11 My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.
1 Corinthians 3:3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?
1 Corinthians 4:6 Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other.
1 Corinthians 4:18 Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
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