Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Corinthians 12:14 in context
2 Corinthians 12:11–17
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I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
12
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
13
For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
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Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
16
Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. But you might say that being crafty, I caught you with deception.
17
Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?
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