2 Corinthians 12:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

For in what way were you inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

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  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others are partakers of this right over you, should not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from 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 should not 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, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void. 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Did I commit a sin by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them, to serve you. 9 And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one: for what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. And in all things I have kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

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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 should not 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 am 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 those whom I sent to you?

  • 2 Cor 12:10-12
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    10Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

    11I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

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

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

    8I robbed other churches, taking wages from them, to serve you.

    9And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one: for what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. And in all things I have kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

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

  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you: you have not injured me at all.

    13You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.

  • 2 Cor 7:11-12
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    11For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner, what diligence it produced in you, yes, what clearing of yourselves, yes, what indignation, yes, what fear, yes, what vehement desire, yes, what zeal, yes, what vindication! In all things you have proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

    12Therefore, though I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For I do not mean that others should be relieved and you burdened;

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18If he has wronged you or owes you anything, put that on my account;

    19I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it: although I do not say to you that you owe me even your own self besides.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, who am 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 much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love I have more abundantly toward you.

    5But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not put too much burden on you all.

  • 2 Cor 2:9-10
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    9For to this end I also wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in all things.

    10To whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it for your sakes in the presence of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-7
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    5Of such a one will I boast, yet of myself I will not boast, but in my weaknesses.

    6For though I would desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But now I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1I wish you would bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1Concerning the service to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you:

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who 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 made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

    30If I must boast, I will boast in the things concerning my weakness.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where then is that blessing you spoke of? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    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, yet certainly I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 2:2
    72%

    2For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad, except the one whom I made sorrowful?

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2Receive us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others are partakers of this right over you, should not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
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    13Now in return for the same (I speak as to my children), you also be enlarged.

  • 2 Cor 13:2
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    2I told you before, and foretell now, as if I were present the second time; and being absent now I write to those who have sinned in the past, and to all others, that if I come again, I will not spare:

  • Gal 2:10
    72%

    10They only desired that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager 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 made you sorry, though it was only for a season.

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

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13Whom I wished to keep with me, so that he might minister to me in your place in my chains for the gospel:

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Moreover, I call God as a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I did not come yet to Corinth.