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2Cr 12:20 — For I fear, lest, when 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:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

I shall not		2Cr 12:21; 2Cr 13:9
and that		2Cr 1:23,24; 2Cr 2:1-3; 2Cr 10:2,6,8,9; 2Cr 13:2,10; 1Cr 4:18-21; 1Cr 5:3-5
debates		1Cr 1:11; 1Cr 3:3,4; 1Cr 4:6-8,18; 1Cr 6:7,8; 1Cr 11:16-19; 1Cr 14:36,37; Gal 5:15,19-21; Gal 5:26; Eph 4:31,32; Jam 3:14-16; Jam 4:1-5; 1Pe 2:1
whisperings		Psa 41:7; Pro 16:28; Rom 1:29
swellings		2Pe 2:18; Jud 1:16

Correlating Passages

I shall not

	2Cr 12:21	[And] 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.
	2Cr 13:9	For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your perfection.

and that

	2Cr 1:23	Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
	2Cr 1:24	Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
	2Cr 2:1	But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
	2Cr 2:2	For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
	2Cr 2:3	And 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.
	2Cr 10:2	But 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.
	2Cr 10:6	And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
	2Cr 10:8	For 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:
	2Cr 10:9	That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
	2Cr 13:2	I 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:
	2Cr 13:10	Therefore 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.
	1Cr 4:18	Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
	1Cr 4:19	But 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.
	1Cr 4:20	For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power.
	1Cr 4:21	What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?
	1Cr 5:3	For 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,
	1Cr 5:4	In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
	1Cr 5:5	To 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.

debates

	1Cr 1:11	For 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.
	1Cr 3:3	For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
	1Cr 3:4	For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
	1Cr 4:6	And 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.
	1Cr 4:7	For 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]?
	1Cr 4:8	Now 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.
	1Cr 4:18	Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
	1Cr 6:7	Now 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?
	1Cr 6:8	Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
	1Cr 11:16	But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
	1Cr 11:17	Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
	1Cr 11:18	For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
	1Cr 11:19	For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
	1Cr 14:36	What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
	1Cr 14:37	If 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.
	Gal 5:15	But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
	Gal 5:19	Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
	Gal 5:20	Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
	Gal 5:21	Envyings, 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 5:26	Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
	Eph 4:31	Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
	Eph 4:32	And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
	Jam 3:14	But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
	Jam 3:15	This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
	Jam 3:16	For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
	Jam 4:1	From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
	Jam 4:2	Ye 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.
	Jam 4:3	Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
	Jam 4:4	Ye 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.
	Jam 4:5	Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
	1Pe 2:1	Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

whisperings

	Psa 41:7	All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
	Pro 16:28	A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
	Rom 1:29	Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

swellings

	2Pe 2:18	For 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.
	Jud 1:16	These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Corinthians 12:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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