Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

General references

Bible References

I shall not

2 Corinthians 12:21
I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete.

And that

2 Corinthians 1:23
But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.
2 Corinthians 2:1
But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again.
2 Corinthians 10:2
I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 13:2
I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,
1 Corinthians 4:18
Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
1 Corinthians 5:3
For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

Debates

1 Corinthians 1:11
For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
1 Corinthians 4:6
Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.
1 Corinthians 6:7
Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
1 Corinthians 11:16
But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 14:36
Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
James 4:1
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
1 Peter 2:1
Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

Whisperings

Psalm 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they devise my hurt, saying,
Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates intimate friends.
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

Swellings

2 Peter 2:18
For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,
Jude 1:16
These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

General references

2 Corinthians 13:6
But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.