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

¹⁴ Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children. ¹⁵ And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved. ¹⁶ And "let it be, I overloaded you not: but being dexterous, I took you by contrivance. ¹⁷ Not any of whom I have sent to you have I by him taken advantage of you. ¹⁸ I called for Titus, and sent with a brother. Has Titus taken advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? not in the same steps??

¹⁹ Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up. ²⁰ For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements: ²¹ Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.