2 Corinthians 12:13

American Standard Version (1901)

For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
  • 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
  • 1 Cor 9:15-18 : 15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void. 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel. 17 For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me. 18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you; 9 and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself] .

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  • 2 Cor 12:14-17
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    14Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

    15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

    16But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

    17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

  • 2 Cor 12:10-12
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    10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

    11I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

    12Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-10
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    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

    8I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;

    9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself] .

    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

    13but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

  • 2 Cor 7:11-12
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    11For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

    12So although I wrote unto you, I [wrote] not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    77%

    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18But if he hath wronged thee at all, or oweth [thee] aught, put that to mine account;

    19I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

  • 2 Cor 2:4-5
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    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

    5But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.

  • 2 Cor 2:9-10
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    9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

    10But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the presence of Christ;

  • 2 Cor 12:5-7
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    5On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in [my] weaknesses.

    6For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth from me.

    7And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
    73%

    1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

    2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 2:2
    72%

    2For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?

  • 2 Cor 7:2
    72%

    2Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
    72%

    12If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
    72%

    10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
    72%

    13Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.

  • 2 Cor 13:2
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    2I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

  • Gal 2:10
    72%

    10only [they would] that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

  • 2 Cor 7:8-9
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    8For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

    9I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.