2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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 ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

In Context

13For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, unless in this―that I did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.

15I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:14I do not write these things that I may make you ashamed; but as my beloved children I admonish you.

1 Corinthians 10:24Let no one seek his own, but each the welfare of the other.

1 Corinthians 11:34and if any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that you come not together for condemnation. But other things I will set in order when I come.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 12:12-21

Paul's Expostulations. ( a. d. 57.) 11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you;… Read the whole commentary →

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