^{14 Ref} Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

^{15 Ref} And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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

^{17 Ref} Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

^{18 Ref} I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? `walked we' not in the same steps?

^{19 Ref} Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, `are' for your edifying.

^{20 Ref} For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means `there should be' strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

^{21 Ref} lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.