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.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife
But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walkin
Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go be
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged
If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned ea
Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the on
All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.
For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing yo
I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to t
Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?
I already warned you the second time I was with you. So now in my absence I warn those who sinned earlier and everyone e
For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.