2 Corinthians 12:11-21 - Paul's Concern For The Christians At Corinth
11 I have become a fool: you did compel me. For I ought to be commended by you: for I am not inferior to the very chief of the apostles, if indeed I am nothing. 12 For indeed the signs of the apostleship are wrought in me in all patience, in miracles and in wonders and in dynamites. 13 For what is that in which you are inferior to other churches, except that I did not burden you? forgive me this wrong.
14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not spare: for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for the children, 15 But I will most delightfully spend and be spent for your souls. If the more abundantly I love you am I loved the less? 16 But let it he so, I did not burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Which one of those whom I sent unto you, did I fleece you through him? 18 I called Titus, and sent the brother along with him: whether did Titus defraud you? did we not walk by the same Spirit? did we not in the same tracks?
19 For a long time you were thinking that I am apologizing to you. We speak before God in Christ; but all things, beloved, are for your edification. 20 For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you; 21 lest, I again having come, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn over many of those having previously committed sins, and not having repented over the uncleanness and the fornication and debauchery which they have done.