For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. Cross References Romans 1:29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, Romans 1:30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. Romans 2:8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. 1 Corinthians 1:11 My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. 1 Corinthians 3:3 for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man? 1 Corinthians 4:6 Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another. 1 Corinthians 4:18 Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. 1 Corinthians 4:21 Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit? 1 Corinthians 5:2 And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this? 1 Corinthians 11:19 And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved. 1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace--as in all the churches of the saints. 2 Corinthians 2:1 So I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. Galatians 5:20 idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, James 3:14 But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth. James 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice. James 4:11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it. 1 Peter 2:1 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. Treasury of Scripture For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not: lest there be debates, contentions, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults: I shall not. 2 Corinthians 12:21 2 Corinthians 13:9 and that. 2 Corinthians 1:23,24 2 Corinthians 2:1-3 2 Corinthians 10:2,6,8,9 debates. 1 Corinthians 1:11 1 Corinthians 3:3,4 1 Corinthians 4:6-8,18 whisperings. Psalm 41:7 Proverbs 16:28 Romans 1:29 swellings. 2 Peter 2:18 Jude 1:16 |