13. For what is it in which ye were inferior to the other congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} except in 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 your things, 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 utterly spent for your souls though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
16. But be it so, I did not burden you; nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17. Did I make a gain of you by any of those whom I sent unto you?