2 Corinthians 12:14 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁴ Well now, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will still not burden you, because I want you, not your things—children should not have to save up for parents, but parents for children.

³³ I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.

¹⁴ I am not writing these things to shame you; I am admonishing you as my dear children. ¹⁵ Because even if you were to have thousands of tutors in Christ, you would not have many fathers, because I am the one who begot you in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel.

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who have been puffed up, but the power.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being .

³³ —even as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own profit but that of the many, that they may be saved.

³⁴ But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together into judgment. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

⁵ Now I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia (for I am coming through Macedonia).

¹⁵ It was in this confidence that I was planning to come by you first,

¹ This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” ² As I already said while with you the second time I now repeat in writing while absent, to those who sinned before and to all the rest: If I come again I will not spare,

¹ So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, do stand fast in the Lord in this way, dear ones.

¹⁷ Not that I want the gift, but I want the fruit that is being added to your account.

⁵ Further, you well know that we never used words to flatter, or to disguise greed (God is witness), ⁶ or to seek glory from men (whether from you or from others) —as apostles of Christ we could have been ‘heavy’,

⁸ Yearning over you in this way, we were well pleased to share with you not only the Gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become dear to us.

¹¹ indeed you know how we treated each one of you as a father does his own children, exhorting and comforting you,

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Is it not precisely you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? ²⁰ Indeed, you are our glory and our joy.

² Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers willingly, not under compulsion; not for dishonest gain but freely; ³ neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the Chief Shepherd is revealed you will receive the unfading crown of glory.