2 Corinthians 12:14-21 - Paul's Concern For The Corinthians

¹⁴ Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden 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 I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. ¹⁶ Be it so, indeed; I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you by deceit. ¹⁷ Did I overreach you by any of those whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I exhorted Titus, and with him sent the brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

¹⁹ Do you think again that we offer you a defense of ourselves? We speak all these things before God in Christ, beloved, for your edification. ²⁰ For I fear, lest when I come I shall find you not, such as I wish, and I shall be found by you not such as you wish: lest there shall be contentions, envies, excitements, strife, evil speaking, whisperings, party spirit, disorderly conduct: ²¹ lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn over many of those who have already sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness and lewdness and wantonness which they have committed.