2 Corinthians 12:20

Paul fears that when he comes he may find quarreling, jealousy, anger, and other sins, and that they may find him sterner than they wish. It matters because unrepented sin threatens both the church and the joy of reunion.

Cross-references · 28

• 1 Pet 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• Gal 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• 1 Cor 1:11My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.
• Rom 1:29They 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,
• Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
• Gal 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
• Prov 16:28A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
• Jas 4:1–5What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• 1 Cor 4:18–21Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
• 1 Cor 3:3–4for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
• Gal 5:26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
• Ps 41:7All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
• 2 Cor 13:9–10In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.
• 1 Cor 6:7–8The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
• Eph 4:31–32Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
• 1 Cor 5:3–5Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
• 2 Cor 12:21I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
• Jas 3:14–16But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
• 2 Pet 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
• 1 Cor 4:6–8Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.
• 1 Cor 11:16–19If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
• 2 Cor 10:2I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.
• 2 Cor 13:2I already warned you the second time I was with you. So now in my absence I warn those who sinned earlier and everyone else: If I return, I will not spare anyone,
• 2 Cor 1:23I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
• 1 Cor 14:36–37Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?
• 2 Cor 10:8–9For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.
• 1 Cor 14:33For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
• 2 Cor 10:6And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.

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