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 am loved.
16. But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I took you with guile.
17. Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?