noyes 2Corinthians:12:11-21 SEEK
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I have become a fool ;
it is ye that compelled me .
For I ought to have been commended by you ;
for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles ,
though I am nothing .
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Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you with all endurance ,
by signs ,
and wonders ,
and mighty deeds .
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For what is there in which ye were at disadvantage when compared with other churches ,
except that I myself was not a charge to you ?
Forgive me this wrong .
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Behold ,
I am ready to come to you this third time ,
and I will not be a charge 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 .
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And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls ;
though the more I love you ,
the less I am loved .
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But be it so ;
I at least was not a charge to you ;
but yet ,
being crafty ,
I caught you with guile .
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Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to you ?
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I urged Titus to go to you ,
and with him I sent the brother .
Did Titus make a gain of you ?
Did we not walk in the same spirit ?
Did we not walk in the same steps ?
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Have ye been thinking this long time that we are defending ourselves to you ?
It is before God in Christ that we are speaking ;
but all things ,
beloved ,
for your edification .
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For I fear ,
lest ,
when I come ,
I shall not find you such as I would ,
and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not ;
lest there be wranglings ,
envying ,
wraths ,
rivalries ,
backbitings ,
whisperings ,
swellings ,
tumults ;
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and lest ,
when I come again ,
my God will humble me among you ,
and that I shall bewail many of those who have sinned already ,
and did not repent of the uncleanness ,
and fornication ,
and lasciviousness ,
which they committed .