^{13 Ref} 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 Ref} Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

^{15 Ref} And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

^{16 Ref} But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

^{17 Ref} Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

^{18 Ref} 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?

^{19 Ref} Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

^{20 Ref} For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: