Riverside(i)
11 I have become foolish; you made me. For I ought to have been recommended by you. For in nothing have I been inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am nothing.
12 The signs of an apostle were performed among you in all patience by miracles and wonders and deeds of power.
13 What is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the churches except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
14 Now this third time I am ready to come to you, and I shall not be a burden to you. For I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up money for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you too much, am I loved the less?
16 Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you. But being crafty I caught you with cunning?
17 Did I take advantage of you through any one of those I sent to you?
18 I begged Titus to go, and I sent along with him the brother. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit and walk in the same steps?
19 Are you thinking all this while that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking before God in Christ. All this, beloved, is to build you up.
20 For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and I myself may not be found by you such as you wish. I am afraid that there may be strife, jealousy, anger, rivalry, slanders, whisperings, conceit, disorders.
21 I am afraid that when I come again my God may humble me in your presence, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have been long sinning and have not repented of the impurity and unchastity and sensuality which they have practiced.