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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 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:
¹⁰Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. (2 Cor. 13:2,10)

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

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I shall not.

2 Cor. 12:21• 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. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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2 Cor. 13:9• ⁹For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. (2 Cor. 13:9)

and that.

2 Cor. 1:23‑24• ²³Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
²⁴Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. (2 Cor. 1:23‑24)

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2 Cor. 2:1‑3• ¹But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
²For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
³And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. (2 Cor. 2:1‑3)

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2 Cor. 10:2,6,8‑9• 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.
⁶And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
⁸For 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:
⁹That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. (2 Cor. 10:2,6,8‑9)

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2 Cor. 13:2,10• 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:
¹⁰Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. (2 Cor. 13:2,10)

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1 Cor. 4:18‑21• ¹⁸Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
¹⁹But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
²⁰For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
²¹What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? (1 Cor. 4:18‑21)

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1 Cor. 5:3‑5• ³For 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,
⁴In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
⁵To deliver such an one unto Satan for the 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 hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. (1 Cor. 1:11)

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1 Cor. 3:3‑4• ³For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
⁴For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? (1 Cor. 3:3‑4)

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1 Cor. 4:6‑8,18• ⁶And 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.
⁷For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
⁸Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
¹⁸Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. (1 Cor. 4:6‑8,18)

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1 Cor. 6:7‑8• ⁷Now 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?
⁸Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. (1 Cor. 6:7‑8)

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1 Cor. 11:16‑19• ¹⁶But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
¹⁷Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
¹⁸For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
¹⁹For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. (1 Cor. 11:16‑19)

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1 Cor. 14:36‑37• ³⁶What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
³⁷If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. (1 Cor. 14:36‑37)

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Gal. 5:15,19‑21• ¹⁵But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal. 5:15,19‑21)

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Gal. 5:26• ²⁶Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:26)

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Eph. 4:31‑32• ³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. (Eph. 4:31‑32)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:1‑5• ¹From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
³Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
⁴Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? (James 4:1‑5)

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1 Peter 2:1• ¹Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, 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 froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. (Prov. 16:28)

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

swellings.

2 Peter 2:18• 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. (2 Peter 2:18)

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Jude 16• 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. (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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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.