2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours, but you: for children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

In Context

13For in what fell ye short of the other churches; except in this, that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this fault.

15And cheerfully will I both pay my expenses, and also give myself for your souls; although the more I love you, the less ye love me.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:14I write these things, not to shame you; but I instruct you, as dear children.

1 Corinthians 10:24Let no one seek his own things, but also the things of his fellow-man.

1 Corinthians 11:34And let him who is hungry, eat at home; that ye may assemble, not for condemnation. And as to other things, I will give you directions when I come.

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 →

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