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I am afraid that I will find quarreling and jealousy, hot tempers and selfishness, insults and gossip, pride and disorder. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_corinthians/12-20.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_corinthians/12-20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_corinthians/12-20.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_corinthians/1.htm">2 Corinthians</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_corinthians/12.htm">Chapter 12</a> > Verse 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_corinthians/12-19.htm" title="2 Corinthians 12:19">◄</a> 2 Corinthians 12:20 <a href="../2_corinthians/12-21.htm" title="2 Corinthians 12:21">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_corinthians/12.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_corinthians/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I am afraid that when I get there I will find you different from what I would like you to be and you will find me different from what you would like me to be. I am afraid that I will find quarreling and jealousy, hot tempers and selfishness, insults and gossip, pride and disorder. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_corinthians/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For I fear that when I come, I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_corinthians/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I am afraid when I come, we won't be pleased with each other. I fear that some of you may be arguing or jealous or angry or selfish or gossiping or insulting each other. I even fear that you may be proud and acting like a mob. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_corinthians/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For I fear that when I come I may find you not such as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; that there may be rivalry, jealousy, fury, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_corinthians/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.</p><p class="hdg">I shall not.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/12-21.htm">2 Corinthians 12:21</a> Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/13-9.htm">2 Corinthians 13:9</a> For we rejoice that we are weak and you are strong. This also we pray for, your perfection.</p><p class="hdg">and that.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/1-23.htm">2 Corinthians 1:23,24</a> But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/2-1.htm">2 Corinthians 2:1-3</a> But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/10-2.htm">2 Corinthians 10:2,6,8,9</a> But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/13-2.htm">2 Corinthians 13:2,10</a> I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/4-18.htm">1 Corinthians 4:18-21</a> As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/5-3.htm">1 Corinthians 5:3-5</a> I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, . . . </p><p class="hdg">debates.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/1-11.htm">1 Corinthians 1:11</a> For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them that are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/3-3.htm">1 Corinthians 3:3,4</a> For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/4-6.htm">1 Corinthians 4:6-8,18</a> But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/6-7.htm">1 Corinthians 6:7,8</a> Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/11-16.htm">1 Corinthians 11:16-19</a> But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the Church of God. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/14-36.htm">1 Corinthians 14:36,37</a> Or did the word of God come out from you? Or came it only unto you? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/5-15.htm">Galatians 5:15,19-21</a> But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/5-26.htm">Galatians 5:26</a> Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/4-31.htm">Ephesians 4:31,32</a> Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/3-14.htm">James 3:14-16</a> But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/4-1.htm">James 4:1-5</a> From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-1.htm">1 Peter 2:1</a> Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,</p><p class="hdg">whisperings.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/41-7.htm">Psalm 41:7</a> All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/16-28.htm">Proverbs 16:28</a> A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/1-29.htm">Romans 1:29</a> Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,</p><p class="hdg">swellings.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/2-18.htm">2 Peter 2:18</a> For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jude/1-16.htm">Jude 1:16</a> These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_corinthians/12.htm">Concern for the Corinthians</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">19</span>Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification. <span class="reftext">20</span><span class="highl">For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.</span> <span class="reftext">21</span>Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/1-29.htm">Romans 1:29</a></span><br />Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/1-30.htm">Romans 1:30</a></span><br />Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/2-8.htm">Romans 2:8</a></span><br />But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/1-11.htm">1 Corinthians 1:11</a></span><br />For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them that are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/3-3.htm">1 Corinthians 3:3</a></span><br />For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/4-6.htm">1 Corinthians 4:6</a></span><br />But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/4-18.htm">1 Corinthians 4:18</a></span><br />As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/4-21.htm">1 Corinthians 4:21</a></span><br />What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/5-2.htm">1 Corinthians 5:2</a></span><br />And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/11-19.htm">1 Corinthians 11:19</a></span><br />For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved may be made manifest among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/14-33.htm">1 Corinthians 14:33</a></span><br />For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I teach in all the churches of the saints.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/2-1.htm">2 Corinthians 2:1</a></span><br />But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../galatians/5-20.htm">Galatians 5:20</a></span><br />Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../james/3-14.htm">James 3:14</a></span><br />But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../james/3-16.htm">James 3:16</a></span><br />For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../james/4-11.htm">James 4:11</a></span><br />Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. 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