New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 12:19-21

19All this time 1you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, 2it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and 3all for your upbuilding, 4beloved.

20For I am afraid that perhaps 5when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be 6strife, jealousy, 7angry tempers, 8disputes, 9slanders, 10gossip, 11arrogance, 12disturbances;

21I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have 13sinned in the past and not repented of the 14impurity, 15immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 12:19 Or have you been thinking...? ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 12:19 Rom 9:1; 2 Cor 2:17 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 12:19 Rom 14:19; 2 Cor 10:8; 1 Thess 5:11 ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 12:19 Heb 6:9 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 12:20 1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 2:1-4 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 12:20 1 Cor 1:11; 3:3 ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 12:20 Gal 5:20 ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 12:20 Rom 2:8; 1 Cor 11:19 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 12:20 Rom 1:30; James 4:11; 1 Pet 2:1 ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 12:20 Rom 1:29 ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 12:20 1 Cor 4:6, 18; 5:2 ↩
12. 2 Corinthians 12:20 1 Cor 14:33 ↩
13. 2 Corinthians 12:21 2 Cor 13:2 ↩
14. 2 Corinthians 12:21 1 Cor 6:9, 18; Gal 5:19; Col 3:5 ↩
15. 2 Corinthians 12:21 I.e. sexual immorality ↩

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