2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 there that you have had less than the other churches, but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.

15But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:14And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we anything left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

Proverbs 13:22The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.

Ezekiel 34:2Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the hocks be fed by the shepherds?

1 Corinthians 4:14I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.

1 Corinthians 10:24Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.

1 Corinthians 11:34If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest 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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