2 Corinthians 12:20

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

For I feare lest it come to passe that when I come I shall not fynde you soche as I wolde: and I shalbe foude vnto you soche as ye wolde not: I feare lest ther be founde amoge you debate envyinge wrath stryfe backbytynges whisperynges swellynges and discorde.

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  • Rom 1:29 : 29 beinge full of all vnrighteous doinge of fornicacio wickednes coveteousnes maliciousnes full of envie morther debate disseyte evill codicioned whisperers
  • 1 Cor 1:11 : 11 It is shewed vnto me (my brethren) of you by them that are of the housse of Cloe that ther is stryfe amonge you. And this is it that I meane:
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 Yf ye byte and devoure one another: take hede lest ye be consumed one of another.
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Wherfore laye asyde all maliciousnes and all gyle and dissimulacion and envie and all backbytynge:
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they have spoke the swellinge wordes of vanytie they begyle wt wantanes thorowe yt lustes of the flesshe them that were clene escaped: but now are wrapped in errours.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers complayners walkynge after their awne lustes whose mouthes speake proude thynges. They have men in greate reverence be cause of a vauntage.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 The dedes of the flesshe are manyfest whiche are these advoutrie fornicacio vnclenes wantannes 20 ydolatrye witchecraft hatred variaunce zele wrath stryfe sedicion sectes 21 envyinge murther dronkenes glottony and soche lyke: of the which I tell you before as I have tolde you in tyme past that they which comit soche thinges shall not inherite ye kyngdome of God.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let vs not be vayne glorious provokinge one another and envyinge one another.
  • Eph 4:31-32 : 31 Let all bitternes fearsnes and wrath rorynge and cursyd speakynge be put awaye from you with all maliciousnes. 32 Be ye courteouse one to another and mercifull forgevynge one another eve as god for Christes sake forgave you.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But Yf ye have bitter envyinge and stryfe in youre hertes reioyce not: nether be lyars agaynst the trueth. 15 This wisdome descedeth not from a boue: but is erthy and naturall and divelisshe. 16 For where envyinge and stryfe is there is stablenes and all maner of evyll workes.
  • Jas 4:1-5 : 1 From whence commeth warre and fighttynge amonge you: come they not here hence? even of youre volupteousnes that rayne in youre members. 2 Ye lust and have not. Ye envie and have indignacion and cannot obtayne. Ye fight and warre and have not because ye axe not. 3 Ye axe and receave not because ye axe a mysse: even to consume it apon youre volupteousnes. 4 Ye advouterars and wemen that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how yt the freshippe of ye worlde is ennimite to god warde? Whosoever wilbe a frende of the worlde is made the enemie of god. 5 Ether do ye thinke that the scripture sayth in vayne The sprite that dwelleth in you lusteth eve contrary to envie:
  • 1 Cor 3:3-4 : 3 For ye are yet carnall. As longe verely as ther is amoge you envyige stryfe and dissencio: are ye not carnall and walke after ye manner of me? 4 As loge as one sayth I holde of Paul and another I am of Apollo are ye not carnall?
  • 1 Cor 4:6-8 : 6 These thinges brethre I have described in myn awne person and Apollos for youre sakes that ye myght learne by vs that no man coute of him selfe beyonde that which is above written: that one swell not agaynst another for eny mans cause. 7 For who preferreth the? What hast thou that thou hast not receaved? Yf thou have receaved it why reioysest thou as though thou haddest not receaved it? 8 Now ye are full: now ye are made rych: ye raygne as kinges with out vs: and I wold to god ye dyd raygne that we might raygne with you.
  • 1 Cor 4:18-21 : 18 Some swell as though I wolde come no more at you. 19 But I will come to you shortely yf God will: and will knowe not ye wordes of the which swell but ye power: 20 for ye kyngdome of God is not in wordes but in power. 21 What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde or els in love and in the sprete of mekenes?
  • 1 Cor 5:3-5 : 3 For I verely as absent in body even so present in sprete have determyned all redy (as though I were present) of him that hath done this dede 4 in the name of oure Lorde Iesu Christ when ye are gaddered togedder and my sprete with the power of the Lorde Iesus Christ 5 to deliver him vnto Satan for ye destruccio of the flesshe yt the sprete maye be saved in ye daye of ye Lorde Iesus.
  • 1 Cor 6:7-8 : 7 Now therfore ther is vtterly a faute amonge you because ye goo to lawe one with another. Why rather suffer ye not wronge? why rather suffre ye not youre selves to be robbed? 8 Naye ye youre selves do wronge and robbe: and that the brethren.
  • 1 Cor 11:16-19 : 16 If there be eny man amonge you yt lusteth to stryve let him knowe that we have no soche custome nether the congregacions of God. 17 This I warne you of and commende not that ye come to gedder: not after a better maner but after a worsse. 18 Fyrst of all when ye come togedder in the cogregacion I heare that ther is dissencion amonge you: and I partly beleve it. 19 For ther must be sectes amonge you that they which are perfecte amonge you myght be knowen.
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not causer of stryfe: but of peace as he is in all other congregacions of the saynctes.
  • 1 Cor 14:36-37 : 36 Sproge ye worde of god fro you? Ether came it vnto you only? 37 Yf eny ma thinke him sylfe a prophet ether spirituall: let him vnderstonde what thinges I write vnto you. For they are the comaundementes of the Lorde.
  • 2 Cor 1:23-2:4 : 23 I call God for a recorde vnto my soule that forto faver you with all I came not enymoare vnto Corinthum. 24 Not that we be LORdes over youre fayth: but helpers of youre ioye. For by fayth ye stode. 1 But I determened this in my silfe yt I wolde not come agayne to you in hevines. 2 For yf I make you sorye who is it that shuld make me glad but the same which is made sory by me? 3 And I wrote this same pistle vnto you lest yf I came I shuld take hevynes of them of whom I ought to reioyce. Certaynly this confidence have I in you all that my ioye is the ioye of you all. 4 For in great affliccion and anguysshe of hert I wrote vnto you with many teares: not to make you sory but that ye myght perceave the love which I have most specially vnto you.
  • 2 Cor 10:2 : 2 I besech you that I nede not to be bolde when I am present (with that same confidece wher with I am supposed to be bolde) agaynst some which repute vs as though we walked carnally.
  • 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 and are redy to take vengeaunce on all disobedience when youre obedience is fulfilled.
  • 2 Cor 10:8-9 : 8 And though I shuld bost my silfe somewhat moare of oure auctorite which the LORde hath geven vs to edifie and not to destroye you it shulde not be to my shame. 9 This saye I lest I shuld seme as though I went about to make you a frayde with letters.
  • 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 I feare lest when I come agayne God brynge me lowe amoge you and I be constrayned to bewayle many of the which have synned all redy and have not repented of the vnclennes fornicacion and wantanes which they haue committed.
  • 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I tolde you before and tell you before: and as I sayde whe I was present with you the seconde tyme so wryte I now beynge absent to them which in tyme past have synned and to all other: yt if I come agayne I will not spare
  • 2 Cor 13:9-9 : 9 We are glad when we are weake and ye stronge. This also we wisshe for even that ye were perfect. 10 Therfore write I these thinges beynge absent lest when I am present I shuld vse sharpenes accordinge to the power which the Lorde hath geven me to edifie and not to destroye.

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