2 Corinthians 12:16
But perhaps, though I was not burdensome to you, yet, like a cunning man, I filched from you by craftiness!
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
In Context
17Was it by the hand of some other person whom I sent to you, that I pilfered from you?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of God, and not in the wisdom of the flesh, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you.
2 Corinthians 7:2Bear with us, my brethren; we have done evil to no one; we have corrupted no one; we have wronged no one.
2 Corinthians 11:9And when I came among you and was needy, I was burdensome to none of you; for the brethren who came from Macedonia, supplied my wants: and in all things I kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.
1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation proceeded not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile:
1 Peter 2:3if ye have tasted and seen 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 →