2 Corinthians 12:16
But bee it that I charged you not: yet for as much as I was craftie, I tooke you with guile.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 pill you by any of them whom I sent vnto you?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:12For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.
2 Corinthians 7:2Receiue vs: we haue done wrong to no man: we haue corrupted no man: we haue defrauded no man.
2 Corinthians 11:9And when I was present with you, and had neede, I was not slouthfull to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking vnto me, the brethre which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all thinges I kept and will keepe my selfe, that I should not be grieuous to you.
1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation was not by deceite, nor by vncleannes, nor by guile.
1 Peter 2:3Because yee haue tasted that the Lord is bountifull.
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 →