^{13 Ref} For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

^{14 Ref} This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

^{15 Ref} And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

^{16 Ref} But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

^{17 Ref} Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

^{18 Ref} I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?

^{19 Ref} It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

^{20 Ref} For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;