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 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Gal 5:19–21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• 1 Cor 1:11For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
• Rom 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Jude 1:16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
• Gal 5:15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Prov 16:28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
• Jas 4:1–5From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• 1 Cor 4:18–21Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
• 1 Cor 3:3–4For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
• Gal 5:26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Ps 41:7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
• 2 Cor 13:9–10For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
• 1 Cor 6:7–8Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• 1 Cor 5:3–5For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
• 2 Cor 12:21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• Jas 3:14–16But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
• 2 Pet 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• 1 Cor 4:6–8And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
• 1 Cor 11:16–19But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
• 2 Cor 10:2But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
• 2 Cor 13:2I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
• 2 Cor 1:23Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
• 1 Cor 14:36–37What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
• 2 Cor 10:8–9For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
• 1 Cor 14:33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
• 2 Cor 10:6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

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