Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?ġ9 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God ( AM) as those in Christ and everything we do, dear friends, ( AN) is for your strengthening.

( AI) Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! 17 Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you? 18 I urged ( AJ) Titus ( AK) to go to you and I sent our brother ( AL) with him. ( AG) If I love you more, ( AH) will you love me less? 16 Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. ( AF) 15 So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well.

After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, ( AE) but parents for their children. ( AA) 13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? ( AB) Forgive me this wrong! ( AC)ġ4 Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, ( AD) and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. ( Z) 12 I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,” ( Y) even though I am nothing. ( W) Paul’s Concern for the Corinthiansġ1 I have made a fool of myself, ( X) but you drove me to it. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight ( T) in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, ( U) in persecutions, ( V) in difficulties.

( R)” ( S) Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ( O) 9 But he said to me, “My grace ( P) is sufficient for you, for my power ( Q) is made perfect in weakness. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ( L) Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, ( M) a messenger of Satan, ( N) to torment me. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. ( I) 6 Even if I should choose to boast, ( J) I would not be a fool, ( K) because I would be speaking the truth. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. ( F) 3 And I know that this man-whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows- 4 was caught up ( G) to paradise ( H) and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. ( E) Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know-God knows. 2 I know a man in Christ ( C) who fourteen years ago was caught up ( D) to the third heaven. ( A) Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations ( B) from the Lord.

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