2 Corintios 12:20

20 En realidad, me temo que cuando vaya a verlos no los encuentre como quisiera, ni ustedes me encuentren a mí como quisieran. Temo que haya peleas, celos, arrebatos de ira, rivalidades, calumnias, chismes, insultos y alborotos.

2 Corintios 12:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear lest when I come
This fear arose from his fatherly affection for them, and care of them:

I shall not find you such as I would;
truly penitent for former sins, thoroughly reformed in life and manners, zealous for God, Christ, and the Gospel, and hearty lovers of one another:

and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not;
sharp in his reproofs and admonitions, severe in his corrections and censures, and lawfully using the authority he had from Christ, to punish incorrigible offenders:

lest there be debates;
or "strifes", or contentions among them, about words to no profit, or about their ministers, as before; one being for Paul, and another for Apollos, and another for Cephas:

envyings:
at each other's gifts, or "jealousies" of one another, and evil surmisings:

wraths;
breaking out into words and actions, which discover hatred of mind, a malignant spirit, quite contrary to that of the Gospel:

strifes:
law suits before heathen magistrates; contentions in the church who shall be greatest; or about lesser matters of religion, or things indifferent, vain, and trifling, and kept up merely for the sake of victory:

backbitings;
speaking evil of one another, detracting from, hurting, or taking away each other's character and good name:

whisperings;
secretly sowing discords among friends, and privately suggesting evil things of each other:

swellings;
with pride and conceit of themselves, because of their riches, learning, and eloquence, and looking with disdain upon others:

tumults;
at church meetings, interrupting one another, going into parties, and making rents and schisms.

2 Corintios 12:20 In-Context

18 Le rogué a Tito que fuera a verlos y con él envié al hermano. ¿Acaso se aprovechó Tito de ustedes? ¿No procedimos los dos con el mismo espíritu y seguimos el mismo camino?

19 ¿Todo este tiempo han venido pensando que nos estábamos justificando ante ustedes? ¡Más bien, hemos estado hablando delante de Dios en Cristo! Todo lo que hacemos, queridos hermanos, es para su edificación.

20 En realidad, me temo que cuando vaya a verlos no los encuentre como quisiera, ni ustedes me encuentren a mí como quisieran. Temo que haya peleas, celos, arrebatos de ira, rivalidades, calumnias, chismes, insultos y alborotos.

21 Temo que, al volver a visitarlos, mi Dios me humille delante de ustedes, y que yo tenga que llorar por muchos que han pecado desde hace algún tiempo pero no se han arrepentido de la impureza, de la inmoralidad sexual y de los vicios a que se han entregado.