2 Corinthians 12:16

World English Bible (2000)

But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
  • 2 Cor 10:2-3 : 2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;
  • 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
  • 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
  • 1 Pet 2:3 : 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

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  • 2 Cor 12:17-19
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    17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

    18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps?

    19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

  • 2 Cor 12:11-15
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    11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

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

    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

    14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

    15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

  • 2 Cor 11:5-10
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    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

    6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

    7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

    8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from 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 that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • Col 2:4
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    4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

    12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  • 1 Cor 9:18-19
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    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

    19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • 2 Cor 1:16-17
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    16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

    17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

  • 2 Cor 2:4-5
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    4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

    5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
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    5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

    6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

  • Phil 1:16-17
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    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

  • 2 Cor 7:12
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    12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

  • 1 Cor 15:10-11
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    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:3
    69%

    3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  • Phlm 1:13-14
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    13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

    14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

  • Phil 2:16
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    16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:22
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    22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.