2 Corinthians 12:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

⁷ All who hate me whisper together (gossip) against me; against me they devise my hurt, saying:

²⁸ A perverse man sows discord. A whisperer separates good friends.

²⁹ They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

¹¹ The house of Chloe told me, my brothers, that there are disputes among you.

³ You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men? ⁴ While one said, »I belong to Paul;« and another, »I belong to Apollos;« are you not fleshly human beings?

⁶ Brothers I have applied these things to myself and to Apollos for your sakes. That way you might learn the value of the saying: Do not go beyond the things written. None of you should be arrogant (self-important) against one another. ⁷ For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it? ⁸ You are full and now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us. I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

¹⁸ Now some have become proud (arrogant), thinking that I would not come to you. ¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if God wills, and I will get to know what the proud ones do and not what they say, but their power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. ²¹ What do you want? Shall I come to you with punishment or with love, and in the mild spirit of meekness?

³ I am not there with you in person. But I am with you in spirit. I have already judged the man who did this. ⁴ When you assemble in the name and with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, I will be with you in spirit. ⁵ Deliver this one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁷ It is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not let yourself be wronged? Why not let your selves be defrauded (cheated)? ⁸ Instead you do wrong and defraud, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

¹⁶ If anyone is contentious about this we have no other practice, neither do the congregations of God. ¹⁷ Now in this that I declare to you that I do not praise you. For you come together not for the better but for the worse. ¹⁸ For first of all, when you come together in the congregation, I hear that there are divisions among you and I partly believe it. ¹⁹ For there must be also heresies among you that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

³³ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the congregations of the holy ones.

³⁶ Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? ³⁷ If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

²³ But I call God for a witness against me. To spare you I did not come to Corinth.

² I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

⁶ We are ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

⁸ I should boast a great deal concerning the authority the Lord gave us to build you up, and not to tear you down, I would not be put to shame. ⁹ I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

¹⁵ But if you continue to bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects, ²¹ envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁶ Let us not become egotistical, stirring up competition with one another, envying one another.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and screaming, and abusive speech, be put away (removed) (expiated) from you, along with all malice. ³² You should be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also forgave you through (by means of) Christ.

²¹ I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced.

² I told you in advance as if I were present the second time. Being absent now I write to those who have sinned and to all others. If I come again I will not spare you.

⁹ We are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong. We also pray that you be readjusted. ¹⁰ Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power that the Lord gave me to enlightenment and not to destruction.

¹ Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk.

¹⁸ For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

¹⁴ If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not a wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

¹ What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you? ² You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. ³ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly (with bad motives) that you may spend it on your pleasures. ⁴ Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart (mental disposition) that he induced to live in us cause us to envy?

¹⁶ These murmur, complain, and walk after their lusts, they speak arrogantly, flattering people to gain advantage.