Study Desk

All this time ^(F1)you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, ^(C1)it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and ^(C2)all for building you up, ^(C3)beloved.

For I am afraid that perhaps ^(C1)when I come I may find you to be not what I wish, and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be ^(C2)strife, jealousy, ^(C3)angry tempers, ^(C4)selfishness, ^(C5)slanders, ^(C6)gossip, ^(C7)arrogance, ^(C8)disturbances;

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 ^(C1)sinned in the past and not repented of the ^(C2)impurity, sexual immorality, and indecent behavior which they have practiced.