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13 For what is there in which the other churches had the better of you, except in the fact that I would not permit myself to be a burden to you? You must forgive me that wrong!
14 Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.
15 And I will be glad to spend all I have and all I am for your sake. Are you going to love me the less for loving you so intensely?
16 But granting that I did not burden you myself, I was clever about it, you say, and took you in by a trick.
17 Yet did I make anything out of you by anybody that I sent to you?
18 I asked Titus to go and I sent his brother with him. Did Titus make anything out of you? Did not he and I act in the same spirit, and take the very same steps?
19 Have you been supposing all along that it is before you I have been defending myself? It is in the sight of God and as a follower of Christ that I have been speaking. But it is all to do you good, dear friends,