2 Corinthians 12:13
For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!
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- 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
- 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?
- 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
- 1 Cor 9:15-18 : 15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting! 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility. 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.
- 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge? 8 I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you! 9 When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
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- 2 Cor 12:14-174 verses80%
14 Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
16 But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!
17 I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?
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10 Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
11 The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
12 Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.
- 2 Cor 11:7-104 verses78%
7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?
8 I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!
9 When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
- Gal 4:12-132 verses78%
12 I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!
13 Personal Appeal of Paul But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,
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11 For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
12 So then, even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf before God.
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5 For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”
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13 For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.
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18 Now if he has defrauded you of anything or owes you anything, charge what he owes to me.
19 I, Paul, have written this letter with my own hand: I will repay it. I could also mention that you owe me your very self.
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9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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4 For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not to make you sad, but to let you know the love that I have especially for you.
5 But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent(not to exaggerate) he has saddened all of you as well.
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9 For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.
10 If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him– for indeed what I have forgiven(if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ,
- 2 Cor 12:5-73 verses74%
5 On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.
6 For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,
7 even because of the extraordinary character of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not become arrogant, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to trouble me– so that I would not become arrogant.
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1 Paul and His Opponents I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!
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1 Preparing the Gift For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,
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21 I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.
- 2 Cor 11:29-302 verses73%
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?
30 If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.
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15 Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!
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19 Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.
- 1 Cor 9:1-22 verses73%
1 The Rights of an Apostle Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.
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2 For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad but the one I caused to be sad?
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2 Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.
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12 If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
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18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.
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10 Because of this I am writing these things while absent, so that when I arrive I may not have to deal harshly with you by using my authority– the Lord gave it to me for building up, not for tearing down!
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13 Now as a fair exchange– I speak as to my children– open wide your hearts to us also.
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2 I said before when I was present the second time and now, though absent, I say again to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone,
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10 They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.
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8 For even if I made you sad by my letter, I do not regret having written it(even though I did regret it, for I see that my letter made you sad, though only for a short time).
9 Now I rejoice, not because you were made sad, but because you were made sad to the point of repentance. For you were made sad as God intended, so that you were not harmed in any way by us.
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8 Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,
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6 nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,
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13 I wanted to keep him with me so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel.
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23 Why Paul Postponed His Visit Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.