2Cor 12:20 Cross References

2 Corinthians 12:20

20: For I am afraid that when I come to visit you I won't like what I find, and then you won't like my response. I am afraid that I will find quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfishness, backstabbing, gossip, conceit, and disorderly behavior.

1 Corinthians 1:11

  1. For some members of Chloe's household have told me about your arguments, dear brothers and sisters.

Romans 1:29

  1. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.

Galatians 5:15

  1. But if instead of showing love among yourselves you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.

1 Peter 2:1

  1. So get rid of all malicious behavior and deceit. Don't just pretend to be good! Be done with hypocrisy and jealousy and backstabbing.

Jude 1:16

  1. These people are grumblers and complainers, doing whatever evil they feel like. They are loudmouthed braggarts, and they flatter others to get favors in return.

1 Corinthians 14:33

  1. For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the other churches.

1 Corinthians 6:7

  1. To have such lawsuits at all is a real defeat for you. Why not just accept the injustice and leave it at that? Why not let yourselves be cheated?
  2. But instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even your own Christian brothers and sisters.

Ephesians 4:31

  1. Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of malicious behavior.
  2. Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

2 Corinthians 10:2

  1. I hope it won't be necessary, but when I come I may have to be very bold with those who think we act from purely human motives.

James 3:14

  1. But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your hearts, don't brag about being wise. That is the worst kind of lie.
  2. For jealousy and selfishness are not God's kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and motivated by the Devil.
  3. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and every kind of evil.

Psalms 41:7

  1. All who hate me whisper about me, imagining the worst for me.

1 Corinthians 5:3

  1. Even though I am not there with you in person, I am with you in the Spirit. Concerning the one who has done this, I have already passed judgment
  2. in the name of the Lord Jesus. You are to call a meeting of the church, and I will be there in spirit, and the power of the Lord Jesus will be with you as you meet.
  3. Then you must cast this man out of the church and into Satan's hands, so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved when the Lord returns.

1 Corinthians 11:16

  1. But if anyone wants to argue about this, all I can say is that we have no other custom than this, and all the churches of God feel the same way about it.
  2. But now when I mention this next issue, I cannot praise you. For it sounds as if more harm than good is done when you meet together.
  3. First of all, I hear that there are divisions among you when you meet as a church, and to some extent I believe it.
  4. But, of course, there must be divisions among you so that those of you who are right will be recognized!

2 Corinthians 12:21

  1. Yes, I am afraid that when I come, God will humble me again because of you. And I will have to grieve because many of you who sinned earlier have not repented of your impurity, sexual immorality, and eagerness for lustful pleasure.

2 Peter 2:18

  1. They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With lustful desire as their bait, they lure back into sin those who have just escaped from such wicked living.

Proverbs 16:28

  1. A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.

2 Corinthians 10:8

  1. I may seem to be boasting too much about the authority given to us by the Lord. But this authority is to build you up, not to tear you down. And I will not be put to shame by having my work among you destroyed.
  2. Now this is not just an attempt to frighten you by my letters.

1 Corinthians 14:36

  1. Do you think that the knowledge of God's word begins and ends with you Corinthians? Well, you are mistaken!
  2. If you claim to be a prophet or think you are very spiritual, you should recognize that what I am saying is a command from the Lord himself.

James 4:1

  1. What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it the whole army of evil desires at war within you?
  2. You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous for what others have, and you can't possess it, so you fight and quarrel to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don't have what you want is that you don't ask God for it.
  3. And even when you do ask, you don't get it because your whole motive is wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.
  4. You adulterers! Don't you realize that friendship with this world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy this world, you can't be a friend of God.
  5. What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the Holy Spirit, whom God has placed within us, jealously longs for us to be faithful?

1 Corinthians 4:6

  1. Dear brothers and sisters, I have used Apollos and myself to illustrate what I've been saying. If you pay attention to the Scriptures, you won't brag about one of your leaders at the expense of another.
  2. What makes you better than anyone else? What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why boast as though you have accomplished something on your own?
  3. You think you already have everything you need! You are already rich! Without us you have become kings! I wish you really were on your thrones already, for then we would be reigning with you!

Galatians 5:19

  1. When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,
  2. idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group,
  3. envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other kinds of sin. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 1:23

  1. Now I call upon God as my witness that I am telling the truth. The reason I didn't return to Corinth was to spare you from a severe rebuke.
  2. But that does not mean we want to tell you exactly how to put your faith into practice. We want to work together with you so you will be full of joy as you stand firm in your faith.
  3. So I said to myself, "No, I won't do it. I won't make them unhappy with another painful visit."
  4. For if I cause you pain and make you sad, who is going to make me glad?
  5. That is why I wrote as I did in my last letter, so that when I do come, I will not be made sad by the very ones who ought to give me the greatest joy. Surely you know that my happiness depends on your happiness.

2 Corinthians 13:2

  1. I have already warned those who had been sinning when I was there on my second visit. Now I again warn them and all others, just as I did before, that this next time I will not spare them.

2 Corinthians 10:6

  1. And we will punish those who remained disobedient after the rest of you became loyal and obedient.

1 Corinthians 3:3

  1. for you are still controlled by your own sinful desires. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your own desires? You are acting like people who don't belong to the Lord.
  2. When one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul," and another says, "I prefer Apollos," aren't you acting like those who are not Christians?

1 Corinthians 4:18

  1. I know that some of you have become arrogant, thinking I will never visit you again.
  2. But I will come--and soon--if the Lord will let me, and then I'll find out whether these arrogant people are just big talkers or whether they really have God's power.
  3. For the Kingdom of God is not just fancy talk; it is living by God's power.
  4. Which do you choose? Should I come with punishment and scolding, or should I come with quiet love and gentleness?

Galatians 5:26

  1. Let us not become conceited, or irritate one another, or be jealous of one another.

2 Corinthians 13:9

  1. We are glad to be weak, if you are really strong. What we pray for is your restoration to maturity.
  2. I am writing this to you before I come, hoping that I won't need to deal harshly with you when I do come. For I want to use the authority the Lord has given me to build you up, not to tear you down.
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