2 Corinthians 12:20 Cross References - JuliaSmith

²⁰ For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

⁷ Together, all hating me, will whisper against me: against one they will purpose evil to me.

²⁸ A man of perverseness shall send forth strife: and a tale-bearer separates friends.

²⁹ Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

¹¹ For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you.

³ For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? ⁴ For when a certain one should say, I truly am of Paul; and another, I of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

⁶ And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself and to Apollos for you; that ye might learn in us not to think above what has been written, lest ye be puffed up one above one against the other. ⁷ For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received? ⁸ Already were ye satisfied, already were ye rich, without us ye reigned; and I would ye also reigned, that we also might reign together with you.

¹⁸ And as my not coming to you, some were puffed up. ¹⁹ And I will come to you swiftly, if the Lord will, and I shall know not the word of those puffed up, but the power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God not in word, but in power. ²¹ What will ye? should I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

³ For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this. ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁷ Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded? ⁸ But ye treat ill, and defraud, and that the brethren.

¹⁶ And if any one seem to be loving strife, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. ¹⁷ And this announcing I approve not, that not for the better come ye together, but for the worse. ¹⁸ For truly first, ye coming together in the church, I hear divisions to be among you; and some part I believe. ¹⁹ For there must be also sects among you, that the tried might be made manifest among you.

³³ For God is not of unsteadiness, but of peace, as in all the churches of the holy ones.

³⁶ Or came out the word of God from you or did it arrive to you only? ³⁷ If any think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him observe what I write to you, that they are the commands of the Lord.

²³ And I call upon God a witness upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth.

² And I pray, being present, not to be bold with the confidence which I reckon to encounter against certain, reckoning us as walking about according to the flesh.

⁶ And having in readiness to avenge every imperfect instruction, when your obedience should be completed.

⁸ For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed: ⁹ Lest I seem as terrifying you by epistles.

²¹ Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

² I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:

⁹ For we rejoice when we be weak, and ye be able: and this also we pray, your restoration. ¹⁰ For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

¹⁵ And if ye bite and devour one another, see ye that ye be not laid waste by one another.

¹⁹ And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ Idolatry, charm, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intriguings, seditions, sects ²¹ Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁶ Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

³¹ Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness: ³² And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

¹⁴ And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. ¹⁵ This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit. ¹⁶ For where envy and intrigue, there confusion and every bad deed.

¹ Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members ² Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures. ⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God. ⁵ Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us?

¹ Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

¹⁸ For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

¹⁶ These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage.