13. For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!
14. Now for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for I do not seek 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 your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
16. But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning!
17. Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?
18. I urged Titus, and sent our brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?