2 Corinthians 12:16
And, perhaps, (though) I did not burden you, yet (it may be said), as a crafty man with deceit I have robbed you.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
In Context
17By any other whom I have sent to you have I made prey of you?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of Aloha, we are conversant in the world; and not with the wisdom of the flesh, and especially with you yourselves.
2 Corinthians 7:2Bear with us, my brethren; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have injured no man.
2 Corinthians 11:9And being come among you, I burdened no man of you; for my want the brethren who came from Makedunia supplied: and in every thing have I kept myself, and will keep, that I may not be burdensome to you.
1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation was not from deceit, nor from uncleanness, nor from guile;
1 Peter 2:3If you have tasted and seen how good is the Lord,
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 →