2 Corinthians 12:11-21 - Paul's Concern For The Christians At Corinth
11 I am made a fool in boasting myself. Ye have compelled me: I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing was I inferior unto the chief apostles, though I be nothing: 12 Yet the tokens of an apostle were wrought among you with all patience; with signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferiors unto other congregations? Except it be therein that I was not grievous unto you. Forgive me this wrong done unto you.
14 Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children. 15 I will very gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your souls: though the more I love you, the less I am loved again. 16 But be it that I grieved you not: nevertheless I was crafty and took you with guile. 17 Did I defraud you by any of them which I sent unto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother: Did Titus defraud you of any thing? Walked we not in one spirit? Walked we not in like steps?
19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves? We speak in Christ in the sight of God. But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 20 For I fear, lest it come to pass, that when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and I shall be found unto you such as I would not. I fear lest there be found among you debate, envying, wrath, strife, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord. 21 I fear lest when I come again, God bring me low among you, and I be constrained to bewail many of them which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and wantonness which they have committed.