2 Corinthians 12:13

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For in what way were you less favored than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

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  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others have this right to receive from you, shouldn’t we have it even more? But we have not used this right. Instead, we endure all things so that we will not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who lack the right to not work for a living?
  • 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Look, I am ready to come to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
  • 1 Cor 9:15-18 : 15 But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting. 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to do so. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 If I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I am simply entrusted with a responsibility. 18 What then is my reward? It is that when I preach the gospel, I may offer it free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? 8 I robbed other churches by taking support from them to serve you. 9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept and will continue to keep myself from being a burden to you in any way.

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  • 2 Cor 12:14-17
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    14Look, I am ready to come to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

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

    16But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Rather, being crafty, I caught you with deceit.

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

  • 2 Cor 12:10-12
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    79%

    10Therefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

    11I have become foolish in boasting; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, because I am in no way inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing.

    12The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs, wonders, and miracles.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-10
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    7Did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

    8I robbed other churches by taking support from them to serve you.

    9And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept and will continue to keep myself from being a burden to you in any way.

    10As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12I beg you, brothers: Become like me, for I also became like you. You have done me no wrong.

    13You know that it was because of a weakness in my flesh that I first preached the gospel to you.

  • 2 Cor 7:11-12
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    11See what earnestness this godly sorrow has produced in you! What eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what readiness to see justice done! At every point you have proved yourselves to be pure in this matter.

    12So even though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong or for the sake of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you, in the sight of God, your earnestness on our behalf.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    77%

    5I do not consider myself in any way inferior to these 'super-apostles.'

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Our desire is not for others to be relieved while you are burdened, but for equality.

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18If he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account.

    19I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me even your very self.

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

  • 2 Cor 2:4-5
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    4For out of great distress and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the love I have for you more abundantly.

    5Now if anyone has caused sorrow, they have not grieved me alone but to some degree—not to overburden you—they have grieved all of you.

  • 2 Cor 2:9-10
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    9For this reason, I also wrote to you, to test you and see if you are obedient in everything.

    10Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if I have forgiven anything—it has been for your benefit in the presence of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-7
    3 verses
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    5On behalf of this man I will boast, but concerning myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

    6For if I desire to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone think more of me than what they see in me or hear from me.

    7And because of the extraordinary revelations, so that I might not become conceited, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me, so that I would not become conceited.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Indeed, you are bearing with me.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1Indeed, concerning the ministry to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you.

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21I fear that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will grieve over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they have practiced.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

    30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

  • Gal 4:15
    73%

    15What happened to your blessedness? I testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
    73%

    19Again, do you think that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking before God in Christ, and all these things, beloved, are for your edification.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    73%

    1Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

    2If I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 2:2
    72%

    2For if I grieve you, who then will make me glad but the one who is grieved by me?

  • 2 Cor 7:2
    72%

    2Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, corrupted no one, and exploited no one.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
    72%

    12If others have this right to receive from you, shouldn’t we have it even more? But we have not used this right. Instead, we endure all things so that we will not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
    72%

    18What then is my reward? It is that when I preach the gospel, I may offer it free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
    72%

    10This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not tearing you down.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
    72%

    13Now in return—I speak as to children—open your heart wide as well.

  • 2 Cor 13:2
    72%

    2I have said before, and I am saying again now as though present, even though I am absent, to those who have sinned previously and to all the rest: If I come again, I will not spare anyone.

  • Gal 2:10
    72%

    10They asked only that we remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

  • 2 Cor 7:8-9
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    8For even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it at first, I see that this letter grieved you, though only for a while.

    9Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God intended, so that you would not suffer any loss from us.

  • Phlm 1:8
    72%

    8For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • 1 Thess 2:6
    72%

    6We did not seek glory from people, neither from you nor from others.

  • Phlm 1:13
    72%

    13I wanted to keep him with me so that he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel on your behalf.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
    71%

    23I call God as my witness and stake my life on it: it was to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.