2 Corinthians 12:13-19 For in what respect were you inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Common⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ For in what respect were you inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong! ¹⁴ Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children. ¹⁵ I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less? ¹⁶ But be that as it may, I did not burden you myself. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! ¹⁷ Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not act in the same spirit and walk in the same steps? ¹⁹ Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.