2 Corinthians 12:16
But let it he so, I did not burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
In Context
17Which one of those whom I sent unto you, did I fleece you through him?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:12For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.
2 Corinthians 7:2Receive us: we have injured no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.
2 Corinthians 11:9for the brethren, having come from Macedonia, supplied my deficiency; and in everything I rendered myself not burdensome to you, and will so render.
1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation was not from delusion, nor from impurity, nor in guile:
1 Peter 2:3if you have tasted that the Lord is good.
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 →