2 Corinthians 12:13

2 Corinthians 12:13

Signs of an Apostle

11 I have become ^aa fool in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for ^bin nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though ^cI am nothing.

12 ^aTruly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and ^bwonders and mighty ^cdeeds.

13 For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Love for the Church

14 ^aNow for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for ^bI do not seek yours, but you. ^cFor the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent ^afor your souls; though ^bthe more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

16 But be that as it may, ^aI did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning!

17 Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

18 I urged Titus, and sent our ^abrother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

19 ^aAgain,¹ do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? ^bWe speak before God in Christ. ^cBut we do all things, beloved, for your edification.

20 For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that ^aI shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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wherein you were inferior—that is, were treated with less consideration by me than were other churches.

I myself—I made a gain of you neither myself, nor by those others whom I sent, Titus and others (II Corinthians 12:17-18).

wrong—His declining support from the Corinthians might be regarded as the denial to them of a privilege, and a mark of their spiritual inferiority, and of his looking on them with less confidence and love (compare II Corinthians 11:9, II Corinthians 11:11).

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