2 Corinthians 12:16
But be it so, I was not myself a charge to you[12:16]; but yet, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 make gain of you, by any of those whom I have sent to you?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, did we deport ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
2 Corinthians 7:2Receive us; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we defrauded no one.
2 Corinthians 11:9And when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; for what was lacking to me the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and in every thing I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will keep myself.
1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;
1 Peter 2:3if indeed ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;
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 →