2 Corinthians 12:16
But be it so; I at least was not a charge to you; but yet, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Noyes Bible
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 the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
2 Corinthians 7:2Receive us into your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.
2 Corinthians 11:9and when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; (for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied my wants;) and in every thing I kept myself and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.
1 Thessalonians 2:3For our teaching is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in guile;
1 Peter 2:3if indeed ye have 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 →