2 Corintios 12:20

20 Pues temo que, cuando vaya, no me gustará lo que encuentre, y que a ustedes no les gustará mi reacción. Temo que encontraré peleas, celos, enojo, egoísmo, calumnias, chismes, arrogancia y conducta desordenada.

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 Cuando le pedí a Tito que los visitara y envié con él al otro hermano, ¿acaso Tito se aprovechó de ustedes? ¡No!, porque ambos tenemos el mismo espíritu y caminamos sobre las pisadas del otro y hacemos las cosas de la misma manera.

19 Tal vez piensen que decimos estas cosas solo para defendernos. No, les decimos esto como siervos de Cristo y con Dios como testigo. Todo lo que hacemos, queridos amigos, es para fortalecerlos.

20 Pues temo que, cuando vaya, no me gustará lo que encuentre, y que a ustedes no les gustará mi reacción. Temo que encontraré peleas, celos, enojo, egoísmo, calumnias, chismes, arrogancia y conducta desordenada.

21 Así es, tengo miedo de que, cuando vaya de nuevo, Dios me humille ante ustedes. Y quedaré entristecido porque varios de ustedes no han abandonado sus viejos pecados. No se han arrepentido de su impureza, de su inmoralidad sexual ni del intenso deseo por los placeres sensuales.