2 Corinthians 12:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

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  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.
  • 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.
  • 2 Cor 10:2-3 : 2 now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that(I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards. 3 For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,
  • 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 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!
  • 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed– God is our witness–
  • 1 Pet 2:3 : 3 if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

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  • 2 Cor 12:17-19
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    17I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?

    18I urged Titus to visit you and I sent our brother along with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not behave in the same way?

    19Have 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.

  • 2 Cor 12:11-15
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    11The 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.

    12Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.

    13For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

    14Look, 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.

    15Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

  • 2 Cor 11:5-10
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    5For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

    6And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

    7Or 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?

    8I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!

    9When 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.

    10As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

  • Col 2:4
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    4I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16Paul’s Sufferings for Christ I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

    12I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

  • 1 Cor 9:18-19
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    18What 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.

    19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

  • 2 Cor 1:16-17
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    16and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

    17Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both“Yes, yes” and“No, no” at the same time?

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1Paul and His Opponents I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.

  • 2 Cor 2:4-5
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    4For 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.

    5But 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.

  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
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    5For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed– God is our witness–

    6nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6For 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,

  • Phil 1:16-17
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    16The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.

    17The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

  • 2 Cor 7:12
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    12So 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.

  • 1 Cor 15:10-11
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    10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

    11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:3
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    3But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

  • Phlm 1:13-14
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    13I wanted to keep him with me so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel.

    14However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.

  • Phil 2:16
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    16by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15Where 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!

  • Gal 1:10
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    10Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

  • 1 Cor 9:22
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    22To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But 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!

  • Gal 2:4
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    4Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.