2 Corinthians 12:11-21 - Paul's Concern For The Christians At Corinth

¹¹ I am become a fool in boasting; but ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing have I fallen short of the very chief apostles, though I am nothing. ¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you, in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. ¹³ For wherein were ye inferior to the other churches, unless that I myself was not burdensom to you.

¹⁴ Forgive me this wrong. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you: yet I will not be burdensom to you; for I seek not yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And I will most gladly spend, and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. ¹⁶ But be it so: I did not burden you: but being crafty, I caught you with guile. ¹⁷ Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? In the same steps?

¹⁹ Think ye that we again excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all things, beloved, for your edification. ²⁰ For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again, ²¹ and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.