2 Corinthians 12:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?
  • 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,
  • 1 Cor 9:15-18 : 15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void; 16 for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and wo is to me if I may not proclaim good news; 17 for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted! 18 What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you? 8 other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration; 9 and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 12:14-17
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    14Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

    15and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

    16And be it `so', I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;

    17any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?

  • 2 Cor 12:10-12
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    10wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

    11I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

    12The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,

  • 2 Cor 11:7-10
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    7The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

    8other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;

    9and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

    10The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12Become as I `am' -- because I also `am' as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

    13and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

  • 2 Cor 7:11-12
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    11for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.

    12If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13for not that for others release, and ye pressured, `do I speak,'

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18and if he did hurt to thee, or doth owe anything, this to me be reckoning;

    19I, Paul did write with my hand, I -- I will repay; that I may not say that also thyself, besides, to me thou dost owe.

  • 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 did persecute the assembly of God,

  • 2 Cor 2:4-5
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    4for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

    5And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

  • 2 Cor 2:9-10
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    9for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

    10And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven `it', because of you -- in the person of Christ -- `I forgive it,'

  • 2 Cor 12:5-7
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    5Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

    6for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

    7and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1For, indeed, concerning the ministration that `is' for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

    30if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

  • Gal 4:15
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    15what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord?

    2if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 2:2
    72%

    2for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
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    13and `as' a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say `it',) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

  • 2 Cor 13:2
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    2I have said before, and I say `it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

  • Gal 2:10
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    10only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.

  • 2 Cor 7:8-9
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    8because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent -- if even I did repent -- for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.

    9I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;