2 Corinthians 12:16
But though it be granted that I was not a burden to you, yet, you say, this was my cunning with which I caught you by a trick.
Montgomery 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 gain of you through any of those whom I sent to you?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:12For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.
2 Corinthians 7:2Make room for me in your hearts! I have wronged no man, I have ruined no man, I have defrauded no man.
2 Corinthians 11:9Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
1 Thessalonians 2:3For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.
1 Peter 2:3since you 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 →