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2 Corinthians 12:13

11 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.

12 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.

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.

15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
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.
WEB
For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
ASV
For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.
DARBY
For in what is it that ye have been inferior to the other assemblies, unless that I myself have not been in laziness a charge upon you? Forgive me this injury.
BLB
For [in] what is it that you⁺ were inferior beyond the rest [of] the churches, except that I myself did not burden you⁺? Forgive me this wrong!
ÅB
For hva var det dere ble tilsidesatt i for de andre menigheter uten i det at jeg ikke falt dere til byrde? Tilgi meg denne urett!
OTB
På hvilken måte ble dere behandlet som underlegne de andre menighetene, bortsett fra at jeg selv ikke ble en byrde for dere? Tilgi meg for denne uretten!
B1930
For hvad var det I blev tilsidesatt i for de andre menigheter uten i det at jeg ikke falt eder til byrde? Tilgi mig denne urett!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 9:6

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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?

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  • 2 Corinthians 12:14

    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.

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  • 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.

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