2Corinthians:12:11-21

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* I am become a fool in glorying ; ye have compelled me : for I ought to have been commended of you : for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles , though I be nothing . * Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience , in signs , and wonders , and mighty deeds . * For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches , except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you ? forgive me this wrong . * Behold , the third time I am ready to come to you ; and I will not be burdensome to you : for I seek not yours , but you : for the children ought not to lay up for the parents , but the parents for the children . * And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you ; though the more abundantly I love you , the less I be loved . * But be it so , I did not burden you : nevertheless , being crafty , I caught you with guile . * Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you ? * I desired Titus , and with him I sent a brother . Did Titus make a gain of you ? walked we not in the same spirit ? walked we not in the same steps ? * Again , think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you ? we speak before God in Christ : but we do all things , dearly beloved , for your edifying . * For 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 : * And lest , when I come again , my God will humble me among you , and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already , and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed .

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