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2 Cor. 12:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For I fear, lest, wheng 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:

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2 Cor. 13:2,10• ²I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
¹⁰On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing. (2 Cor. 13:2,10)

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1 Cor. 4:21• ²¹What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness? (1 Cor. 4:21)

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I shall not.

2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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2 Cor. 13:9• ⁹For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting. (2 Cor. 13:9)

and that.

2 Cor. 1:23‑24• ²³But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.
²⁴Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of your joy: for by faith ye stand. (2 Cor. 1:23‑24)

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2 Cor. 2:1‑3• ¹But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
²For if *I* grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?
³And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all. (2 Cor. 2:1‑3)

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2 Cor. 10:2,6,8‑9• ²but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.
⁶and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.
⁸For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given to us for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;
⁹that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters: (2 Cor. 10:2,6,8‑9)

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2 Cor. 13:2,10• ²I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
¹⁰On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing. (2 Cor. 13:2,10)

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1 Cor. 4:18‑21• ¹⁸But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;
¹⁹but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.
²⁰For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
²¹What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness? (1 Cor. 4:18‑21)

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1 Cor. 5:3‑5• ³For *I*, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,
⁴to deliver, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:
⁵to deliver him, I say, being such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (1 Cor. 5:3‑5)

debates.

1 Cor. 1:11• ¹¹For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you. (1 Cor. 1:11)

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1 Cor. 3:3‑4• ³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?
⁴For when one says, *I* am of Paul, and another, *I* of Apollos, are ye not men? (1 Cor. 3:3‑4)

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1 Cor. 4:6‑8,18• ⁶Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.
⁷For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?
⁸Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we* also might reign with you.
¹⁸But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you; (1 Cor. 4:6‑8,18)

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1 Cor. 6:7‑8• ⁷Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?
⁸But *ye* do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren. (1 Cor. 6:7‑8)

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1 Cor. 11:16‑19• ¹⁶But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.
¹⁷But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.
¹⁸For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it.
¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. (1 Cor. 11:16‑19)

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1 Cor. 14:36‑37• ³⁶Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you only?
³⁷If any one thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognise the things that I write to you, that it is the Lord's commandment. (1 Cor. 14:36‑37)

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Gal. 5:15,19‑21• ¹⁵but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.
¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:15,19‑21)

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Gal. 5:26• ²⁶Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:26)

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Eph. 4:31‑32• ³¹Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;
³²and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you. (Eph. 4:31‑32)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
¹⁶For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:1‑5• ¹Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence,--from your pleasures, which war in your members?
²Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.
³Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.
⁴Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
⁵Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously? (James 4:1‑5)

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1 Peter 2:1• ¹Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings, (1 Peter 2:1)

whisperings.

Psa. 41:7• ⁷All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt. (Psa. 41:7)

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Prov. 16:28• ²⁸A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends. (Prov. 16:28)

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

swellings.

2 Peter 2:18• ¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error, (2 Peter 2:18)

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Jude 16• ¹⁶These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit. (Jude 16)

• And he still feared that the work of restoring grace meanwhile was not so complete, but that much which was amiss remained feebly if at all judged in many. For rather would he come in love and a spirit of meekness, than with a rod which their condition might demand....It is a long list of sad evils; but how soon these might characterize true believers, where there is a party or parties to take up and spread and give effect to the word of leaders! (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 12:19-21” by W. Kelly)

• It was the dread of their state and its consequences for themselves and to his own heart which had hindered his going when he had intended; and the delay had exposed him to evil tongues long since. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 12:19-21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

W. Kelly Translation

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For I fear lest by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found bya you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strifeb, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions;

WK Translation Notes

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a

Or "for."

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There is the highest, though not the largest, authority for the singular form, which seems to have been assimilated to the words following.