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 2:1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Gal 5:19–21Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
• 1 Cor 1:11For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.
• Rom 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
• Jude 1:16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
• Gal 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
• Prov 16:28A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
• Jas 4:1–5Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• 1 Cor 4:18–21Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
• 1 Cor 3:3–4for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• Gal 5:26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
• Ps 41:7All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
• 2 Cor 13:9–10For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
• 1 Cor 6:7–8Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• 1 Cor 5:3–5For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
• 2 Cor 12:21that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
• Jas 3:14–16But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• 1 Cor 4:6–8Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
• 1 Cor 11:16–19But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
• 2 Cor 10:2Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
• 2 Cor 13:2I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
• 2 Cor 1:23But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
• 1 Cor 14:36–37What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
• 2 Cor 10:8–9For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,
• 1 Cor 14:33for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
• 2 Cor 10:6and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.

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