2Corinthians:12:11-21

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* Have I become a fool -? You have constrained me to it ; for I ought to have been commended by you , because I am in nothing behind the very greatest Apostles , though I am nothing . * Truly the signs of an Apostle were fully wrought among you with all patience , by signs and wonders , and powers . * For what is the thing in which you were inferior to other congregations , unless that I myself have not been burdensome to you ? Forgive me this injury . * Behold , a third time I am ready to come to you , and I will not be burdensome to you ; because I seek not yours , but you : for the children ought not to lay up for the parents , but the parents for the children . * Yes , I most gladly will spend and be spent for the sake of your souls ; even though the more abundantly I love you , the less I am loved . * Be it so , then , I did not burden you : nevertheless , being crafty , I caught you with guile ! * With respect to any one of them I sent to you , did I by him make gain of you ? * I besought Titus to go to you ; and with him I sent a brother : did Titus make any gain of you ? Did we not walk in the same spirit ? Did we not walk in the same steps ? * Again , do you think that we apologize to you ? In the presence of God we speak in Christ , that all these things , beloved , are done for your edification . * Yet I am afraid , lest , perhaps , when I come , I shall not find you such as I wish : and that I shall be found by you , such as you do not wish : -lest , perhaps , there be among you strifes , emulations , wraths , brawlings , backbitings , whisperings , swellings , tumults . * And lest , when I come again , my God may humble me among you ; and I shall bewail many , who have formerly sinned , and have not reformed from the uncleanness , and fornication , and lasciviousness , which they have committed .

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