2 Corinthians 12:14-21 - Paul's Concern For The Corinthians
14 Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be burdensome 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 most gladly will spend and will be spent for your souls, even if the more abundantly I love you the less I am loved. 16 Be it so, I was not burdensome to you; but being crafty I caught you with deceit. 17 Did I make any thing out of you by any of those I sent to you? 18 I requested Titus, and sent the brother with him; did Titus make any thing out of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit, in the same steps?
19 Do you again think that we are defending ourselves? We speak in Christ before God; all these things, beloved, are for your edification. 20 For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest there shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, pride, dissensions; 21 lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.