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2 Corinthians 12:14
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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?  
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2 Corinthians 12:14

II Corinthians 12:14 The third time I am ready to come to you. Then he had been there twice before; once when he founded the church; once while preaching at Ephesus, of which visit Acts gives no account. See PNT "2Co 2:1". And I will not be burdensome to you. As before, he will maintain himself this third time. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, etc. As parents do with children, so will he, their spiritual father, do. He does not ask them to provide for him, while he feeds them the bread of life.




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