2 Corinthians 12:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But be it, that I was not chargeable vnto you: Neuerthelesse, when I was craftie, I caught you with guile.

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  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our reioycyng is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie & godly purenesse, and not in fleshely wisdome, but by the grace of God, we haue had our conuersatio in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But haue cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie, and walke not in craftynesse, neither handle we the word of God disceitefully, but in openyng of the trueth, and report our selues to euery mans conscience in the syght of God.
  • 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Understande vs, we haue wronged no man, we haue corrupt no man, we haue defrauded no man.
  • 2 Cor 10:2-3 : 2 I beseche you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same boldnesse, wherwith I am supposed to haue ben bolde, agaynst some, which repute vs as though we walked accordyng to the fleshe. 3 For though we walke in the fleshe, yet we do not warre according to ye flesh.
  • 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 9 And when I was present with you, and had nede, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackyng vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all thynges I haue kept my selfe so that I shoulde not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe. 10 The trueth of Christe is in me, that this reioycyng shall not be shut vp agaynst me in the regions of Achaia.
  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 13 For what is it, wherin ye were inferiour vnto other Churches, except it be that I was not chargeable vnto you? Forgeue me this wrong.
  • 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, neither of vncleannes, neither in guile:
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any tyme vsed we flatteryng wordes, as ye knowe, neither cloke of couetousnes, God is recorde,
  • 1 Pet 2:3 : 3 If so be that ye haue tasted howe gratious the Lorde is:

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  • 2 Cor 12:17-19
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    17Dyd I pyll you by any of them who I sent vnto you?

    18I desired Titus, and with hym I sent a brother: Dyd Titus defraude you of any thyng? Haue we not walked in the same spirite? not in the same steppes?

    19Agayne, thynke you that we excuse our selues vnto you? We speake in Christ in the syght of God: but we do all thinges dearely beloued, for your edifiyng.

  • 2 Cor 12:11-15
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    11I am become a foole in gloriyng. Ye haue compelled me: for I ought to haue ben commended of you. For nothyng was I inferiour vnto the chiefe Apostles, though I be nothyng,

    12Truely the signes of an Apostle were wrought among you, in all patience, and signes, and wonders, and myghtie deedes.

    13For what is it, wherin ye were inferiour vnto other Churches, except it be that I was not chargeable vnto you? Forgeue me this wrong.

    14Beholde, nowe the thirde tyme I am redy to come vnto you, and yet wyll I not be chargeable vnto you: For I seke not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the chyldren.

    15I wyll very gladly bestowe, & wylbe bestowed for your sakes, though the more aboundauntly I loue you, the lesse I am loued agayne.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-10
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    5Ueryly I suppose that I was not behynde the chiefe Apostles.

    6But though I be rude in speakyng, yet not in knowledge, but in all thynges among you, we haue ben well knowen to the vtmost.

    7Dyd I sinne because I submitted my selfe, that ye myght be exalted, & because I preached to you the Gospell of God freely?

    8I robbed other Churches, takyng wages of them, to do you seruice.

    9And when I was present with you, and had nede, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackyng vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all thynges I haue kept my selfe so that I shoulde not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe.

    10The trueth of Christe is in me, that this reioycyng shall not be shut vp agaynst me in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that wyll I do, to cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs, in yt wherin they gloried.

  • Col 2:4
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    4This I say, lest any man shoulde begyle you with perswasion of wordes.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Truly, not that other be set at ease, & ye brought into combraunce:

  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16I say agayne, let no man thynke that I am foolyshe: or els euen nowe take ye me as a foole, that I also may boast my selfe a litle.

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vayne.

    12Brethren, I besech you be as I am for I am as ye are. Ye haue not iniured me at all.

  • 1 Cor 9:18-19
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    18What is my reward then? Uerily that when I preache the Gospell, I make the Gospell of Christ free, that I misuse not myne aucthoritie in the Gospell.

    19For though I be free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruaunt vnto all men, that I might win the mo.

  • 2 Cor 1:16-17
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    16And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to haue come agayne out of Macedonia vnto you, and to be led foorth of you to Iurie.

    17When I therfore was thus mynded, did I vse lightnesse? or mynde I carnally those thynges whiche I mynde, that with me shoulde be yea yea, & nay nay?

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1Would to God ye coulde haue suffred me a litle in my foolishnesse: and in dede ye do forbeare me.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For ye remember brethren, our labour and trauayle. For we labouryng nyght & day, because we woulde not be chargeable vnto any of you, preached vnto you the Gospell of God.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8Neither toke we breade of any man for nought: but wrought with labour and sweat nyght and daye, because we woulde not be chargeable to any of you.

  • 2 Cor 2:4-5
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    4For in great affliction and anguishe of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that ye shoulde be made sorie, but that ye myght perceaue the loue which I haue, most specially vnto you.

    5But yf any man hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made me sorie, but partly, lest I shoulde greeue you all.

  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
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    5For neither at any tyme vsed we flatteryng wordes, as ye knowe, neither cloke of couetousnes, God is recorde,

    6Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor yet of others:

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6For though I woulde desire to glorie, I shall not be a foole, for I wyll say the trueth: but I nowe refrayne, lest any man shoulde thynke of me, aboue that which he seeth me to be, or yt he heareth of me.

  • Phil 1:16-17
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    16The one preache Christe of strife, not sincerely, supposyng to adde more affliction to my bondes:

    17But the others of loue, knowing that I am set to the defence of the Gospell.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20For ye suffer, yf a man bryng you into bondage, yf a man deuoure, yf a man take, yf a man exalt hym selfe, yf a man smite you on the face.

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    12Wherefore, though I wrote vnto you, I dyd it not for his cause that had done the hurt, neither for his cause that was hurt: but that your good minde to vswarde myght appeare among you in the syght of God.

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    10But by the grace of God, I am that I am: And his grace which is in me, was not in vayne: But I laboured more aboundauntly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

    11Therfore, whether it were I or they, so we preache, and so haue ye beleued.

  • 2 Cor 11:3
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    3But I feare lest by any meanes, that as the serpent begyled Eue through his subtiltie, euen so your myndes shoulde be corrupted fro the singlenesse that is towarde Christe.

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    8This say I not by commaundement, but because of ye feruentnesse of other, & alowing the vnfaynednes of your loue.

  • Phlm 1:13-14
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    13Whom I woulde haue retayned with me, that in thy steade he myght haue ministred vnto me in the bondes of the Gospell:

    14But without thy mynde woulde I do nothyng, that thy benefite shoulde not be as it were of necessitie, but willingly.

  • Phil 2:16
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    16Holdyng fast the worde of lyfe, to my reioycyng in the day of Christe that I haue not runne in vayne, neither haue laboured in vayne.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15What is then your felicitie? For I beare you recorde, that yf it had ben possible, ye woulde haue plucked out your owne eyes, and haue geuen them to me.

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    10Do I nowe perswade men, or God? Other do I seke to please men? For yf I shoulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christe.

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    22To the weake became I as weake, that I might winne the weake. I am made all thinges to all men, that I might at the least way saue some.

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    15But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Neuerthelesse, I wrote not these thinges, that it shoulde be so done vnto me: For it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vayne.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4And that because of incommers, being false brethren, which came in priuily, to spye out our libertie which we haue in Christe Iesu, that they myght bryng vs into bondage.

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    8Wherfore, though I myght be much bolde in Christe, to inioyne thee that which is conuenient:

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    33Euen as I please all men in all thynges, not seking myne owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.