"For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except {it be} that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgi…" — 2 Corinthians 12:13

2 Corinthians 12:13 · KJV

“For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except {it be} that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.”

— 2 Corinthians 12:13

Verse 12

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Verse 14

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

2 Corinthians 12 — Context

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except {it be} that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. {for you: Gr. for your souls}

Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others be partakers of {this} power over you, {are} not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:7-9

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

1 Corinthians 9:15-18

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for {it were} better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

2 Corinthians 12:14