2 Corinthians 12:20 Cross References - Worrell

²⁰ For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I desire, and that I, too, should be found by you such as ye do not desire; lest, by any means, there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

²⁹ having become filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

¹¹ For it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

³ for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men? ⁴ For, when one says, "I am of Paul;" and another, "I am of Apollos;" are ye not carnal?

⁶ Now these things, brethren, I have, in a figure, transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond the things which have been written; that no one be puffed up for the one against the other. ⁷ For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it? ⁸ Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

¹⁸ Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you; ¹⁹ but I will come to you shortly if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power; ²⁰ for the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. ²¹ What do ye wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

³ For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this; ⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

⁷ Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? ⁸ But ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren!

¹⁶ But, if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God. ¹⁷ But, in giving this charge, I praise you not; because, not for the better, but for the worse, do ye come together. ¹⁸ For, first, when ye come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it; ¹⁹ for there must also be factions among you, that the approved may be made manifest among you.

³³ for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

³⁶ Or from you did the word of God go forth? Or did it come to you alone? ³⁷ If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you, that they are the Lord's commandment;

²³ But I invoke God as a witness upon my soul, that, as sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth.

² but I pray that, when present, I may not show courage with the confidence with which I purpose to be bold against some who reckon us as walking according to the flesh.

⁶ and holding ourselves in readiness to avenge every disobedience, when your obedience is made complete.

⁸ For, even if I glory somewhat more abundantly concerning our authority—which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for tearing you down—I shall not be put to shame; ⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you with letters;

²¹ lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced.

² I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as if present at the second time, and, being now absent, I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all the rest; that, if I come again, I will not spare;

⁹ For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong; this also we pray for—your perfection. ¹⁰ For this cause, I write these things while absent; that I may not, when present, deal sharply according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not casting down.

¹⁵ But, if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed by one another.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, ²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, as I also said before, that those practicing such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

²⁶ Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling, be put away from you, with all wickedness; ³² and become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

¹⁴ But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal! ¹⁶ For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed.

¹ Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? ² Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures. ⁴ Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?"

¹ Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;

¹⁶ These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.