20For 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:
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Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)In these verses the apostle addresses himself to the Corinthians two ways:— I. He blames them for what was faulty in them; namely, that they had not stood up in his defence as they ought to have done, and so made it the more needful for him to insist so much on his own vindication. They in manner compelled him to commend himself, who ought to have been commended of them 2 Cor. 12:11. And had they,…
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