2 Corinthians 12:16
But admit it, I was not burdensome to you: but being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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 a gain of you by any one individual whom I sent unto you?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and peculiarly towards you.
2 Corinthians 7:2Give us a favourable reception: we have injured no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
2 Corinthians 11:9And when I was with you, and in want, I was burdensome to no man; for my want the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and on every occasion I have kept myself from being burdensome, and will keep myself.
1 Thessalonians 2:3And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile;
1 Peter 2:3if so be 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 →