2 Corinthians 12:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 ¶ For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
  • 2 Cor 10:2-3 : 2 But I beseech [you], that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
  • 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 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]. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 13 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.
  • 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness:
  • 1 Pet 2:3 : 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.

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

    18 I desired Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?

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

  • 2 Cor 12:11-15
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    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.

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

    13 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.

    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.

    15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-10
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    5 ¶ For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

    6 But though [I be] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

    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].

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

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • Col 2:4
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    4 ¶ And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

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

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    16 ¶ I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

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

  • 1 Cor 9:18-19
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    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.

    19 ¶ For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

  • 2 Cor 1:16-17
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    16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

    17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

  • 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.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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    8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

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    4 For 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.

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  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
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    5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness:

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

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    6 For 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.

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    16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

    17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

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    20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

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    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.

  • 1 Cor 15:10-11
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    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11 Therefore whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

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    3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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    8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

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

    14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

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    16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

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    15 Where 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.

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    10 ¶ For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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    22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.

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    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.

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    4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

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

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    33 Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.

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