2 Corinthians 12:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

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  • Rom 1:29 : 29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
  • 1 Cor 1:11 : 11 for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;
  • Ps 41:7 : 7 All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:
  • Prov 16:28 : 28 A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!
  • Eph 4:31-32 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, 32 and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; 15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, 16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;
  • Jas 4:1-5 : 1 Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? 2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; 3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set. 5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
  • 1 Cor 3:3-4 : 3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk? 4 for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?
  • 1 Cor 4:6-8 : 6 And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other, 7 for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received? 8 Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,
  • 1 Cor 4:18-21 : 18 And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up; 19 but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power; 20 for not in word is the reign of God, but in power? 21 what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?
  • 1 Cor 5:3-5 : 3 for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing: 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -- ye being gathered together, also my spirit -- with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 6:7-8 : 7 Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded? 8 but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!
  • 1 Cor 11:16-19 : 16 and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God. 17 And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together; 18 for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe `it', 19 for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 for God is not `a God' of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
  • 1 Cor 14:36-37 : 36 From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come? 37 if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;
  • 2 Cor 1:23-2:4 : 23 And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth; 24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand. 1 And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you, 2 for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me? 3 and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all, 4 for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.
  • 2 Cor 10:2 : 2 and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;
  • 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
  • 2 Cor 10:8-9 : 8 for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed; 9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,
  • 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.
  • 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I have said before, and I say `it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,
  • 2 Cor 13:9-9 : 9 for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection! 10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

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  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

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    19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

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    4lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

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    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

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    10because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

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    11I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

    12Become as I `am' -- because I also `am' as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

  • 1 Cor 11:17-18
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    17And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;

    18for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe `it',

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    18And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;

    19but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;

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    3and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

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    3for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

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    10And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

    11for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

  • Phil 1:15-16
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    15Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

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    20and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.

  • 3 John 1:10
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    10because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.

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    13for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

  • Gal 5:20
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    20idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

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    10I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

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    11for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

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    4he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

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    16for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

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    12and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

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  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

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    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

  • 2 Cor 7:5
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    5for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without `are' fightings, within -- fears;

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

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    12If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --

  • Gal 5:26
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    26let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

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    11This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, `we are' in deed.

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    14and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

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    13And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

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    15and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

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    20for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;