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Paul's Concern for Corinth and Warning of Discipline

2 Corinthians 12:11-21

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Chapter 12
11 I have become a fool; you forced me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I fell short in nothing compared to the super-apostles, even though I am nothing. 12 Indeed, the signs of the apostle were worked among you in all endurance, by signs and wonders and powers. 13 For in what way were you treated worse than the other churches, if not that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this unrighteousness. 14 Look, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden. For I do not seek what is yours but you. For the children ought not to store up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 But I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved less? 16 But be that as it may: I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I take advantage of you through any of those I sent to you? 18 I exhorted Titus and sent the brother with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not walk in the same Spirit? Did we not walk in the same footsteps? 19 For a long time you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for the sake of your edification. 20 For I fear that somehow, when I come, I might find you not as I want, and I might be found by you as you do not want—such as strife, zeal, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanders, whisperings, swellings, disorders. 21 lest when I come again my God humiliate me before you, and I mourn for many of those who sinned before and did not repent over the impurity and sexual immorality and sensuality that they practiced.