2 Corinthians 12:13

Geneva Bible (1560)

For what is it, wherein yee were inferiours vnto other Churches, except that I haue not bene slouthfull to your hinderance? forgiue me this wrong.

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  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or I only and Barnabas, haue not we power not to worke?
  • 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Behold, the thirde time I am ready to come vnto you, and yet will I not be slouthfull to your hinderance: for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children.
  • 1 Cor 9:15-18 : 15 But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine. 16 For though I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to reioyce of: for necessitie is laid vpon me, and woe is vnto me, if I preach not the Gospel. 17 For if I do it willingly, I haue a reward, but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed vnto me. 18 What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Haue I committed an offence, because I abased my selfe, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you ye Gospell of God freely? 8 I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice. 9 And when I was present with you, and had neede, I was not slouthfull to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking vnto me, the brethre which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all thinges I kept and will keepe my selfe, that I should not be grieuous to you.

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  • 2 Cor 12:14-17
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    14Behold, the thirde time I am ready to come vnto you, and yet will I not be slouthfull to your hinderance: for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children.

    15And I will most gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your soules: though the more I loue you, the lesse I am loued.

    16But bee it that I charged you not: yet for as much as I was craftie, I tooke you with guile.

    17Did I pill you by any of them whom I sent vnto you?

  • 2 Cor 12:10-12
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    10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christes sake: for when I am weake, then am I strong.

    11I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.

    12The signes of an Apostle were wrought among you with all patience, with signes, and wonders, and great workes.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-10
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    7Haue I committed an offence, because I abased my selfe, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you ye Gospell of God freely?

    8I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.

    9And when I was present with you, and had neede, I was not slouthfull to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking vnto me, the brethre which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all thinges I kept and will keepe my selfe, that I should not be grieuous to you.

    10The trueth of Christ is in me, that this reioycing shall not be shut vp against me in the regions of Achaia.

  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.

    13And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.

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    11For beholde, this thing that ye haue bene godly sory, what great care it hath wrought in you: yea, what clearing of yourselues: yea, what indignation: yea, what feare: yea, howe great desire: yea, what a zeale: yea, what reuenge: in all things ye haue shewed your selues, that ye are pure in this matter.

    12Wherefore, though I wrote vnto you, I did not it for his cause that had done the wrong, neither for his cause that had the iniurie, but that our care toward you in the sight of God might appeare vnto you.

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    5Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke:

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18If he hath hurt thee, or oweth thee ought, that put on mine accounts.

    19I Paul haue written this with mine owne hande: I will recompense it, albeit I doe not say to thee, that thou owest moreouer vnto me euen thine owne selfe.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not meete to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

  • 2 Cor 2:4-5
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    4For in great affliction, & anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with many teares: not that yee should be made sorie, but that ye might perceiue the loue which I haue, specially vnto you.

    5And if any hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made mee sorie, but partly (lest I should more charge him ) you all.

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    9For this cause also did I write, that I might knowe the proofe of you, whether yee would be obedient in all things.

    10To whome yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for verely if I forgaue any thing, to whome I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it in the sight of Christ,

  • 2 Cor 12:5-7
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    5Of such a man will I reioyce: of my selfe will I not reioyce, except it bee of mine infirmities.

    6For though I woulde reioyce, I should not be a foole, for I will say the trueth: but I refraine, lest any man should thinke of me aboue that hee seeth in me, or that he heareth of me.

    7And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the aboundance of reuelations, there was giuen vnto me a pricke in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet mee, because I should not be exalted out of measure.

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    21I feare least when I come againe, my God abase me among you, and I shall bewaile many of them which haue sinned already, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnesse which they haue committed.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

    30If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities.

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    15What was then your felicitie? for I beare you recorde, that if it had bene possible, ye would haue plucked out your owne eyes, and haue giuen them vnto me.

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    19Againe, thinke yee that wee excuse our selues vnto you? we speake before God in Christ. But wee doe all thinges, dearely beloued, for your edifying.

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    1Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my worke in the Lord?

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    2For if I make you sorie, who is he then that shoulde make me glad, but ye same which is made sorie by me?

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    18What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.

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    23Nowe, I call God for a recorde vnto my soule, that to spare you, I came not as yet vnto Corinthus.