2 Corinthians 12:16
But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
In Context
17Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.
2 Corinthians 7:2Receive us. We have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have overreached no man.
2 Corinthians 11:9And, when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you, and so I will keep myself.
1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit:
1 Peter 2:3If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.
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 →