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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 foretold and foretell, as if present the second [time] and now absent, to them that have sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
¹⁰For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal severely according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for casting down. (2 Cor. 13:2,10)

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

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I shall not.

2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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2 Cor. 13:9• ⁹For we rejoice when we are weak and ye are strong: this also we pray for, your perfecting. (2 Cor. 13:9)

and that.

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

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2 Cor. 2:1‑3• ¹But I judged this for myself not to come again unto you in grief.
²For if I grieve you, who then [is] he that gladdeneth me, if not he that is grieved by me?
³And I wrote this very thing, that I might not on coming have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy, having trust 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 I present may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring against some that think of us as walking according to flesh.
⁶and being ready to avenge every disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.
⁸For even if I should boast somewhat more abundantly of our authority which the Lord gave for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be ashamed;
⁹that I seem not as it were to terrify you by letters: (2 Cor. 10:2,6,8‑9)

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2 Cor. 13:2,10• ²I have foretold and foretell, as if present the second [time] and now absent, to them that have sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
¹⁰For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal severely according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for casting down. (2 Cor. 13:2,10)

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1 Cor. 4:18‑21• ¹⁸Now some were puffed up as though I were not coming unto you;
¹⁹but I shall come shortly unto you, if the Lord will, and 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 unto you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of meekness? (1 Cor. 4:18‑21)

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1 Cor. 5:3‑5• ³For I, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,
⁴in the name of our Lord Jesus [Christ], ye and my spirit being gathered together with the power of our Lord Jesus [Christ], [concerning] him that so wrought this(
⁵to deliver such an one 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 hath been shown 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 emulation and strife [are] among you, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?
⁴For when one saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, are ye not men? (1 Cor. 3:3‑4)

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1 Cor. 4:6‑8,18• ⁶And these things, brethren, I transferred to myself and Apollos on your account, that ye may in our case learn, Nothing above what is written, in order that ye be not puffed up one for one against another.
⁷For who distinguisheth thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? But if thou didst even receive, why boastest thou as not having received?
⁸Already ye are filled, already ye have been enriched, apart from us ye reigned; and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
¹⁸Now some were puffed up as though I were not coming unto you; (1 Cor. 4:6‑8,18)

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1 Cor. 6:7‑8• ⁷Already therefore it is altogether a fault in you that ye go to law among yourselves. Why are ye not rather wronged? why are ye not rather defrauded?
⁸But ye do wrong and defraud, and this brethren. (1 Cor. 6:7‑8)

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1 Cor. 11:16‑19• ¹⁶But if anyone seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor yet the assemblies of God.
¹⁷Now in enjoining this I praise [you] not, because ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
¹⁸For first, when ye come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and in some measure, I believe [it]:
¹⁹for there must be even 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• ³⁶What! did the word of God go out from you, or reached it unto you alone?
³⁷If anyone seemeth to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things which I write to you, that they are [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 by one another.
¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, 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 vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:26)

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Eph. 4:31‑32• ³¹Let all bitterness and passion and wrath and clamour and evil-speaking be removed from you with all malice;
³²and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ hath forgiven you. (Eph. 4:31‑32)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter emulation and faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal.
¹⁶For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:1‑5• ¹Whence [are] wars and whence fightings among you? [Are they] not hence, from your pleasures that combat in your members?
²Ye lust and have not; ye kill and are jealous, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not;
³ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
⁴Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore shall be minded to be friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
⁵Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain? Doth the Spirit that took his dwelling in us long unto envy? (James 4:1‑5)

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1 Peter 2:1• ¹Putting away therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil-speakings, (1 Peter 2:1)

whisperings.

Psa. 41:7• (Psa. 41:7)

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Prov. 16:28• (Prov. 16:28)

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

swellings.

2 Peter 2:18• ¹⁸For uttering overswellings of vanity, they allure in lusts of the flesh, by dissolutenesses, those that are just escaping from them that walk in error, (2 Peter 2:18)

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Jude 16• ¹⁶These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts, and their mouth speaketh swelling things, 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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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.