2 Corinthians 12:18

I begged Titus to visit you, and sent our other brother with him. Did Titus gain any selfish advantage over you? Were not he and I guided by one and the same Spirit, and did we not walk in the same steps?

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

In Context

17Have I gained any selfish advantage over you through any one of the messengers I have sent to you?

19You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in God's presence and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.

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Cross References

Acts 20:33No one's silver or gold or clothing have I coveted.

2 Corinthians 2:12Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door stood open before me,

2 Corinthians 7:6But He who comforts the depressed--even God-- comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not by his coming only,

2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God that He inspires the heart of Titus with the same deep interest in you;

1 Peter 2:21And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps.

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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