2 Corinthians 12:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

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  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
  • 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service. 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 12:14-17
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    14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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 very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

    16But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

    17Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

  • 2 Cor 12:10-12
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    79%

    10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

    11¶ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:7-10
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    7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

    8I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service.

    9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have 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 boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12¶ Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.

    13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

  • 2 Cor 7:11-12
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    11For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

    12¶ Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5¶ For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18If he hath wronged thee, or oweth [thee] ought, put that on mine account;

    19I Paul have written [it] with mine own hand, I will repay [it]: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto 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 grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

    5¶ But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge 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 be obedient in all things.

    10To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes [forgave I it] in the person of Christ;

  • 2 Cor 12:5-7
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    5Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

    6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but [now] I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or [that] he heareth of me.

    7And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1¶ Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1¶ For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21[And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

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

    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1¶ Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

    2If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless 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 is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

  • 2 Cor 7:2
    72%

    2Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
    72%

    12If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
    72%

    18What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
    72%

    10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
    72%

    13Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto [my] children,) be ye also enlarged.

  • 2 Cor 13:2
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    2I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

  • Gal 2:10
    72%

    10Only [they would] that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

  • 2 Cor 7:8-9
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    8For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though [it were] but for a season.

    9Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8¶ Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor [yet] of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.